[meteorite-list] Boulder-Size Meteor Almost Struck Australia?

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:08:22 2004
Message-ID: <20020906175023.95740.qmail_at_web10405.mail.yahoo.com>

Regarding this article about Australia getting "Almost
Struck", if this object was large enough and slow
enough (to go sub-sonic) to produce "sonic booms",
then Australia most assuredly DID get struck by a
meteorite.

What a waste. There's another meteorite that won't
get searched.

Bob V.

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Boulder-Size Meteor Almost Struck Australia?

Fri Sep 6,12:09 PM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A large meteor possibly the size of
a boulder came close to striking the earth in South
Australia state on Thursday night, local media
reported on Friday.
Residents of Goolwa and Victor Harbour, south of the
state capital Adelaide, inundated police with reports
of a flash of blue light, smoke trails and two sonic
booms.
Bryan Boyle of the Anglo-Australian space-watching
telescope in the eastern state of New South Wales told
the Australian Broadcasting Corp that the sightings
suggested the object was a meteor which came within 19
miles of the ground.
"Occasionally you get a very large size of rock, the
size of a stone up to a boulder, and they only occur
one at a time," he said.
Having worked all night, Boyle was unavailable for
comment early on Friday.
Residents of South Australia said they heard a whoosh.

"It came straight over the top and left a huge smoke
trail and there was two huge sonic booms afterwards,"
a man named Ken told ABC. "It was incredible."
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Received on Fri 06 Sep 2002 01:50:23 PM PDT