[meteorite-list] Daytime Fireball Observed Over Northeastern United States

From: Allen Shaw <allenshaw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:43:34 2004
Message-ID: <003701c113c0$94d7be20$5c7df2d1_at_mayan>

Yes CNN had a brief on this.
---Allen.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: Meteorite Mailing List <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:50 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Daytime Fireball Observed Over Northeastern United
States


>
>
>>From Tony Cecce (ACECCE1_at_STNY.RR.COM)
>
>I just got off the phone with a fellow local astronomer. He received a
phone
>call a few minutes before that from another friend of ours who claimed he
saw a
>major daytime bolide which was "as bright as the sun". This was then
followed
>about five minutes later by a series of sharp booms. All three of us heard
the
>booms, unfortunately I was in the house at the time. We are spread out
over a
>15 mile region between Corning and Elmira New York.
>
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>
>>From Andre Knoefel (andre.knoefel_at_dwd.de)
>IMO - Fireball Data Center
>
>It seems a very bright daylight fireball was visible over
>the Appalachian Mountains on Monday evening (2001-07-23 06:15pm EDT).
>I got reports from Millerstown PA, Edgeworth PA, Shinglehouse PA, Penfield
NY,
>Cameron Mills NY, Old Bridge NJ, Arlington VA, Gaithersburg MD. The
fireball
>was brighter than full moon and the obersver from Cameron Mills reports
>also rumbling sound. The direction of the fireball was southeast to
northwest.
>
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>
>
>From: Tom Orff <torff_at_losch.net>
>
>Ron,
>
>I don't know whether or not you are interested, but there was just a
>special report on one of our local TV stations (WNEP-16) about a daytime
>meteor sighting over Luzerne, Schuylkill and a few other counties in
>Northeast PA.
>
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>
>
>>From Tony Cecce (ACECCE1_at_STNY.RR.COM)
>
>My phone has been ringing off the hook. My mother was outside, she didn't
see
>the meteor itself but did see the landscape briefly brighten then heard two

>sharp booms. The booms were quite unlike thunder, she thought there was a
car
>accident.
>
>Another observer in Corning saw it "hit a hill" in the southwest, assuming
the
>boom was the sound of impact.
>
>The TV just flashed across the bottom of the screen that law enforcement
>agencies have received meteor sitings from Northeast New York deep into
>Pennsylvania.
>
>
>
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