[meteorite-list] FW: Ripley's Believe It or Not meteors/meteorites

From: Paul <lenticulina1_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:03 2004
Message-ID: <20031222223834.24403.qmail_at_web60802.mail.yahoo.com>

Robert Verish wrote:

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"It seems, as I read it from the
information that I found, that a
lighthouse was hit by a "lightning
type of fireball" and not a
meteoroid fireball. Also about the
fact that a cruiser/ship was hit
by a Meteor type fireball as it said
in the book and that that most of
the men jumped ship after the strike.
It seems that the fireball took place
about the same time as that lighthouse
was struck but once again not a meteor
fireball but a lightning strike. While
a ship was close to shore when the ship
was destroyed, a few members survived.
However if it was close to shore, why
did it take so long for those crew
members to get to shore. Mystery
again?"

Whether a mystery exists or not depends on the local
currents at the time of the incident. If the currents
/ tides were offshore at the time, the survivors
could very easily have been slept out sea, even if
they were near to shore. If there were stonrg offshore
currents /tides at the time of the incidence, the
survivors could very well have gone unwillingly on
a long sea vovage even thought they were near to shore.


Yours,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA


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Received on Mon 22 Dec 2003 05:38:34 PM PST