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XenonOfArcticus

Possible timed dashcam footage of Colorado meteroite next to moon last night

So, last night while driving home, I glanced up at the moon and saw a beautiful, big, slow, greenish-yellow meteorite trail descend very close to it. I was facing East, and I know where I was (intersection of Squaw Pass Road and Hwy 74, Evergreen, CO) and what time it was (7:32 by my car's clock).

As a math and science geek, it occurrs to me that knowing the extent and position of the moon, it should be possible to compute and extrapolate in Ra/Dec the path of the meteorite from the video.

I haven't pulled the SD card from the camera (it's a pain). Is this data useful enough to someone to bother pulling it out?

Posted Feb 25, 2016, 1:40 AM UTC

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