[meteorite-list] Colorado Sees 5th Meteor of Autumn

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:32 2004
Message-ID: <200212021654.IAA29657_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E53%257E1019696%257E,00.html

Colorado sees 5th meteor of autumn
By Arthur Kane
Denver Post
November 29, 2002

A meteor shot over the Continental Divide on Thursday evening,
the fifth such event in an unusually active fall.

"We've had an odd run and nobody knows why," said Chris
Peterson, a researcher at the Denver Museum of Nature and
Science. There have been five large meteors spotted in
Colorado since September. Normally only one is seen every
two years.

Jeff Precup, an airfield technician at Jefferson County Airport,
said an air traffic controller saw the meteor at 6:21 p.m.

"He said it lit up the control tower," Precup said.

The Delta County Sheriff's Department also received several
calls about bright lights and rumbling in the sky.

The museum and area schools have set up cameras to monitor
the meteors. Peterson said that if one of the cameras caught
Thursday's light show, the museum will release video as early
as today.

Peterson said people should not be worried because the
meteors are coming from different directions and usually burn
up 20 miles above the earth.

"It seems like something unusual going on - or people are just
more focused on the sky," he said.

The museum is asking people who saw the meteor to describe
it on Peterson's website at www.cloudbait.com.
Received on Mon 02 Dec 2002 11:54:43 AM PST