Fireball over Missouri on August 27th

AMS Event #3262-2018 – Witness Location and estimated ground trajectory

Over 500 fireball reports from 8 states

The AMS has received over 500 reports so far about of a fireball event seen above Missouri on August 27^th, 2018 around 8:40pm CDT (August 28^th 01:40 Universal Time). The fireball was seen primarily from Missouri but was also seen from Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana and Nebraska.

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The event has been caught on an AMS Camera operated by Dana &s; Keith Jenkerson from South of Kansas city. As you can see below, the velocity of the object was pretty low and we can clearly see a fragmentation (which means that despite its shallow angle, the meteoroid actually went through the Earth atmosphere).

Other videos of the event have been shared with AMS:

Captured and shared by D. Bush from Albany, MO – Report #147988 (3262hq-2018)

Captured by P. Simpson from Peculiar, Missouri

AMS Event #3262-2018 – Estimated 3D trajectory

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