Dr. Bill Cooke
HUNTSVILLE-At least two large fireballs streaked through the sky on Monday, January 5th. the fireballs were visible in Tennessee and in Alabama.
Dr. Bill Cooke from the Meteoroid Environment Office, at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville says a fireball passed over the region around 7:30 p.m. on Monday.
The fireball traveled just west of Nashville at 75,000 mph and moved west. Cooke said it burned up 30 miles above the town of New Johnsonville, Tennessee, and is most probably the same fireball reportedly seen by a witness in Cullman.
The second fireball, seen at 7:31 p.m. (Photo: Marshall Space Flight Center)
Another view of the second fireball. (Photo: Marshall Space Flight Center)
There also was a fireball just to the west of Nashville at 5:46:55 CST
The first fireball appeared around 5:46 p.m. (Photo: Marshall Space Flight Center)
tonight. Creating a streak of light brighter than the planet Venus, the object weighed about one pound and moved relatively slow for a meteor – only 32,400 miles per hour.
These images are from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsviulle
