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

From: Rosemary Hackney <ltcrose_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:56 2004
Message-ID: <002901c26e72$2260ede0$ae70d6d1_at_default>

Ya think it could have landed near Rachel?? lol.

Rosie
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From: "Matt Morgan" <mmorgan_at_mhmeteorites.com>
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor Seen In Utah, Colorado and Wyoming


> 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
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> From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor Seen In Utah, Colorado and Wyoming
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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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