[meteorite-list] Meteor Seen In Utah, Colorado and Wyoming

From: Matt <Matt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:56 2004
Message-ID: <00a201c26e1e$32a23280$62f87fa5_at_D7220234W2K>

Hi All:
Any reports from NV or NM? From the dozen or so reports I have, NV seems a
likely place for this to have fallen.
Matt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:22 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor Seen In Utah, Colorado and Wyoming


>
>
>
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/topstory/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi
-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0499_BC_WesternFireball&&news&newsflash-topstory
>
> Meteor seen in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming; green, orange and purple flames
> The Associated Press
> October 7, 2002
>
> SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Residents in Utah, Colorado and southern Wyoming
saw a
> fireball, which some said had a long tail of green, orange and purple
flames
> that raced across the night sky.
>
> "People said it had a 500-foot tail and it was huge, like a meteor, and
green
> and orange," La Plata County, Colo., sheriff's dispatcher Kristy Lee said.
>
> The fireball was seen Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
>
> "It was probably a meteor burning up in the atmosphere," said Peter
Wilensky,
> meteorologist with the National Weather Service/Colorado Basin River
Forecast
> Center.
>
> No man-made objects fell from space Sunday night, said Maj. Ed Thomas, a
> spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in
> Colorado Springs, Colo., which tracks satellites and space debris.
>
> "We don't have a mission to track meteorites, but that's got to be what it
is,"
> Thomas said.
>
> The Weber Area Consolidated Dispatch Center in northern Utah received
about 50
> calls, with some callers saying it looked like a plane that crashed. About
10
> officers from three counties responded to the calls and at one point
searched
> for wreckage, said Weber County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Lasater.
>
> The fireball was spotted in Pueblo, Colo., about 100 miles south of
Denver, and
> in Rawlins, Wyo., about 180 miles northwest of Denver.
>
>
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