USAF NEWS RELEASE Date: April 24, 1996 **************************************************************************** In late March, DOD satellites recorded the bright flashes of three fireball (bolide) occurences. The characteristics of these observations are given below. The peak radiated power (Watts/steradian) assumes a 6000K blackbody model for the flashes. Date Time Approx Location Peak Radiated Total Radiated Approx (GMT) Lat Long power (w/sr) energy (Joules) visual (6000K model) (6000K model) magnitude 26 Mar 96 14:03:04 21.2N 133.4W 0.8x10^10 8.5x10^9 -18.8 29 Mar 96 20:30:54 21.5N 158.1W 3.0x10^10 8.8x10^10 -20.2 30 Mar 96 04:03:42 31.3S 84.1W 4.2x10^10 1.2x10^11 -20.6 ***************************************************************************** PLEASE NOTE: THIS USAF BOLIDE INFORMATION RELEASE AND ALL PREVIOUS RELEASES CAN BE FOUND ON THE WWW AT http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/usaf.html