Loud Booms Apparent In Ohio 10FEB2011...

Springboro, Ohio arrived from google.com on "elp allsky" by searching for loud boom southern ohio.
14:20:10 -- 1 hour 46 mins ago
Brookville, Ohio arrived from google.com on "elp allsky" by searching for loud boom.
15:37:14 -- 31 minutes ago

Feb 11 2011, 11:05 PM Guest403 (guest): 

Steph E-mails...Hey there! So I just posted a comment on your blog...I saw a fireball on the evening of Feb. 10th 6:00 pm EST. I live in Columbus, OH and it was southeast to east. It was one of 4 that had dropped...there were 2 smoke trails from the first two (totally different trajectories but all going the same direction) and I caught the end of the third one. They were really big...very slow...and totally cool!

Bright Meteor Captured By Hawley TX Sentinel Camera 10FEB2011...

Kevin Palivec submits this video of a meteor capture nearly due west of his location at 06:22:15 UTC (00:22:15 MST) 10FEB2011 . In the image, west is right and north is up.

Major Breaking Meteor News Italy...Superbolide Italia 23:24 UTC 8FEB2011...

Composite Image/Movie With Specific Permission Of Ferruccio Zanotti Italian Meteor and TLE Network

 IMTN ( Italian Meteor and TLE Network )

(c) 2011  Mattia Vivarelli - Osservatorio Pian dei Termini OPDT ( PT ) - 

Gruppo Astrofili Montagna Pistoiese G.A.M.P. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 

composite of all movie frames

single frame at peak flight brightness

single frame after detonation clearly showing fragmentation

Atmospheric Trajectory and Orbit Calculated (provisional):
Orbital elements (2000):
Semi-major axis = 2,490 AU
Eccentricity = 0694
Inclination = 48.3 °
The node longitude = 320.7 °
Topic = 243.46 ° at perihelion
Perihelion distance = 0763 AU
AU aphelion distance = 4217
Trajectory into the atmosphere:  

Distance: Observer Initial 208.9 ± 8.3 km
Final Distance 239.3 ± 9.6 km from the observer
Magnitude Apparent (m) -10.9 ± 1.1 magn object
Initial share
s.l.m. 99.2 ± 4.0 km
Quote final s.l.m. 30.3 ± 1.2 km
Distance covered  88.1 ± 14.6 km of track
Transit Time Item 2.6 ± 0.13 s
Elapsed Time before the main flare 1.6 ± 0.08 s
Average air velocity 33.6 ± 5.4 km / s
Tilt the track, 51.4 ± 1.8 ° above the horizon
Azimuth of ground track