[meteorite-list] Seems PF fell on 3/27 and NOT on 3/26...

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:34 2004
Message-ID: <3EE0D35D.CAFB1AC9_at_kconline.com>

Hi Steve A. (not from Chicago but near chicago, Dr. Martin Watson and all the rest of
the detectives out there, :-)

If it burnt out at 12 miles up (an average height of burn out for meteors) then I
would say it would fall about 200 miles an hour the rest of the way to the ground or
about 3.5 to 4 minutes time.

My personal opinion of a fall (Jeff Grossman can chime in here and set us straight) is
when the first piece hits the ground what ever time it is. If the Garza Stone hit
before midnight then the fall would have occurred on the 26th. If after midnight then
the 27th. It takes time to figure something like this out because after having a stone
come through the house you probably aren't too worried what time it is only your house
has been damaged by the fall. It might have even taken some time to figure out what
was happening before they realized what was going on. They held the meteorites for
longer than over night for the offense :-)

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--AL
Received on Fri 06 Jun 2003 01:46:06 PM PDT