[meteorite-list] Fireball Lights Sky Over England

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:27:54 2004
Message-ID: <200311290615.WAA22578_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/publish/article_8897.shtml

Air crash fears as fireball lights sky
Shropshire Star (England)
November 28, 2003
 
A Telford pensioner braced himself for an earsplitting explosion when he saw what he
thought was an aircraft on fire crashing to the ground near The Wrekin today.

The huge fireball - much bigger than the average falling star - lit up the dawn sky with
a plume of sparks, said retired factory worker David Glass, 71, of Charles Road,
Arleston, Wellington.

But there was no explosion after all, and a Shropshire astronomer said Mr Glass had
almost certainly seen a giant meteor.

The sighting happened at 6.05am.

"I saw this massive thing coming down out of the sky just over the back of The Wrekin,
with a shower of sparks behind," he said.

Kev Wildgoose, of Shropshire Astronomical Society, said: "It sounds like an extremely
large meteor - something that is officially classed as a fireball."
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