[meteorite-list] Great Ball Of Fire Lights Up New Zealand Sky
From: magellon <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:29 2004 Message-ID: <3F301392.8CB86BCC_at_earthlink.net> > No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for > causing the death of a dog, he said. Uh oh..... (that dog will never die!:>) kn Ron Baalke wrote: > > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2600500a11,00.html > > Great ball of fire lights up Aucklanders' lives > www.stuff.co.nz > 06 August 2003 > > A spectacular fireball blazed across the northern sky yesterday, a piece > of the more than 30,000 tonnes of the normally invisible space junk that > hits Earth each year. > > Observers in Auckland and from as far away as Whangarei described a > flaming, bright-red fireball with a long white tail shooting across the > sky from the northeast just before 6pm. > > One man in Auckland suburb Orakei, who reported the sight to One Tree > Hill Stardome Observatory, said the meteor appeared to remain bright as > it disappeared over the horizon. > > Another man, who was driving towards the Auckland Harbour Bridge, said > it was "amazing". "I saw the white light first and then it flared into a > green flash. I've never seen a green like it before." > > Stardome spokeswoman Angela Doherty said the fireball, described as > having a "lingering white tail", was a piece of either human > space junk or space rock "that wandered just a bit too close to Earth". > > Wellington's Carter Observatory spokesman John Field said it would be > difficult to gauge the size of the meteor but said it could have been as > big as a fist or the size of a person's head. > > No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for > causing the death of a dog, he said. > > Most space debris simply fell harmlessly and invisibly to the ground, > heating up and burning as it entered the atmosphere before dropping to > earth. > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Tue 05 Aug 2003 04:29:06 PM PDT |
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