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Re: Cambridge-Conference Digest - January 19, 1998
Ron Baalke wrote:
>
> CAMBRIDGE-CONFERENCE DIGEST, 19 January
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>
> (1) BOLIDE EXPLODES OVER DENVER, COLORADO, AND POSSIBLY LEAVES
> FRAGMENTS
>
> (2) IS THE COLORADO BOLIDE A FRAGMENT OF HALE-BOPP?
>
> (3) WHAT IS THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF ASTEROID 253 MATHILDE?
>
> (4) ASTRONOMY GETS FLESHY: LOOKING OUT FOR EROS
>
> (5) THE CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH ON THE DECEMBER 9TH GREENLAND EVENT
>
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> (1) BOLIDE EXPLODES OVER DENVER, COLORADO AND POSSIBLY LEAVES
> FRAGMENTS
>
> From: Phil Burns
>
> A bright bolide exploded over Denver, Colorado last Sunday evening
> (January 12, 1998) according to an article published in the Denver
> Post.
>
> http://www.denverpost.com:80/news/news1914.htm
>
> A teenager says he has located fragments of the bolide in the
> Hampden Memorial Gardens cemetery in Denver, Colorado. He claims
> he saw a baseball sized object crash and fragment in the cemetery
> around the same time as the bolide exploded. He reports the
> fragments were "still glowing bright orange like coals" shortly after
> the impact.
>
> http://InsideDenver.com/extra/space/0113mete.html
>
> Jack Murphy, curator of geology at the Denver Museum of Natural
> History, has been looking at samples collected from the cemetery. No
> word yet as far as I can tell about their composition. It will be
> interesting to see if the fragments turn out to be meteoric or not.
The fragments were not part of the bolide, but were pieces of asphalt
the teenager had picked up that were "glowing red hot" in the snow. The
bolide's actual landing spot has yet to be determined but looks like it
is somewhere west of Elbert near Black Forest. I will keep all of you
posted!
Matt Morgan
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