[meteorite-list] 03-14-2003 Canada Light May Be Space Junk - NOT

From: (wrong string) ørn Sørheim <bsoerhei_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:49 2004
Message-ID: <200303192233.XAA00899_at_mail48.fg.online.no>

List,
No, it was a meteorite.
Do some research on meteors/meteorite falls on that date in previous years.

Regards,
Bjørn Sørheim


At 11:41 19.03.03 -0600, you wrote:
>Paper: The Chronicle-Journal
>City: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
>Date: March 14, 2003
>
>U.S.-based research centre believes light over city may have been space junk
>By Kris Ketonen
>
>Officials with a Las Vegas-based aerial anomaly research centre believe the
>strange light seen over Thunder Bay last weekend may have been a piece of
>space junk re-entering the atmosphere.
>
>Colm Kelleher, who holds a PhD in biochemistry and serves as deputy
>administrator with the National Institute for Discovery Science - a
>privately funded organization that looks into things like UFOs and cattle
>mutilations - said there were "substantial" space junk reentries scheduled
>for atmosphere March 3 and 11.
>
>One of them was remnants from a European Space Agency launch about two weeks
>ago, and the other was part of a satellite, he said.
>
>"Usually, they can pinpoint these things pretty accurately," he said from
>Las Vegas yesterday. "They can usually predict a flight path."
>
>There were no re-entries scheduled for March 8, however, Kelleher said.
>Therefore a meteor, mentioned earlier this week by Lakehead University
>geologist Stephen Kissin, is also a possibility.
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Received on Wed 19 Mar 2003 05:33:19 PM PST