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Originally Posted by Ian Cooper
After some extensive detective work I was able to track down the piece of road that Josh Sherborne of Tauranga was on when his dashcam recorded the bollide. Google maps & the satelitte maps on the Tauranga City Counci Site are years behind which didn't help, but thanks to one of the Roading staff there I narrowed it down to the Domain/Tara Rd intersection with SH 2. The map here is from the N.Z.T.A. site. I have plotted the path of Josh's car. In looking at his footage I have assumed a 160 degree field of view from his dashcam. I worked out by ratio the approx p.a. (position angle) of the Bollide explosion compared to the heading that his car was on which is shown in the first image. Having done that I plotted that 335 degree line onto a map showing the top half of the North Island as well as re-plotting the observation by Elton McAleer at Muriwai and revisited the observation on the WeatherWatch site by an unknown person at Ngahinapouri in the Waikato. The intersection of those observations brings the explosion point back towards the coast of the North Island from my preliminary estimates. Thanks to Elton's very useful observation we now have a better fix on where the object was when it exploded.
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Hi Ian, the work you've done is just beyond incredible. I'm in total awe.
