[meteorite-list] Brilliant Light Plunging Into Pacific May Have Been Meteor
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Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:43 2004 Message-ID: <cd.43fe09d.27f2862d_at_aol.com> --part1_cd.43fe09d.27f2862d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/27/01 5:46:44 PM Central Standard Time, baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov writes: > > Troy Powers, a museum guide at Griffith Observatory, said that judging > from the descriptions, "it could have been a meteor." > "It might have impacted the water, although that's pretty rare," he > said. More likely, he said, "it was a meteor, between the size of a naval > orange and a basketball, about 40 to 50 miles high in the atmosphere." > List, Humm, now museum guides, not just observatory astronomers, can also judge the size of meteors. Meteors hitting the water are "pretty rare"??? Yea I guess so, since only 70% of the Earth is covered by water! Steve Arnold www.meteoritebroker.com --part1_cd.43fe09d.27f2862d_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 3/27/01 5:46:44 PM Central Standard Time, <BR>baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov writes: <BR> <BR> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <BR> Troy Powers, a museum guide at Griffith Observatory, said that judging <BR>from the descriptions, "it could have been a meteor." <BR> "It might have impacted the water, although that's pretty rare," he <BR>said. More likely, he said, "it was a meteor, between the size of a naval <BR>orange and a basketball, about 40 to 50 miles high in the atmosphere." <BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR> <BR> <BR>List, <BR> <BR>Humm, now museum guides, not just observatory astronomers, can also judge the <BR>size of meteors. <BR> <BR>Meteors hitting the water are "pretty rare"??? Yea I guess so, since only <BR>70% of the Earth is covered by water! <BR> <BR>Steve Arnold <BR>www.meteoritebroker.com <BR></FONT></HTML> --part1_cd.43fe09d.27f2862d_boundary-- Received on Tue 27 Mar 2001 07:11:25 PM PST |
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