[meteorite-list] Strange Light Over Tennessee May Have Been Exploding Meteor

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 27 13:55:49 2005
Message-ID: <200507271754.j6RHst104962_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/13266.asp

Strange Light May Have Been Exploding Meteorite
News Channel 5 (Nashville, Tennessee)
July 27, 2005

If you think you spotted something unusual in the sky Monday
night, you're not alone. People all across Middle Tennessee
called in reports of a streak in the sky followed by a loud
boom, and experts now think it may have been a meteorite.

Sightings were reported throughout Tennessee and Kentucky,
and Rocky Alvey at Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory said he
believes it was a meteorite called a bolide. Alvey said a
bolide is a fireball that explodes in the air.

Astronomers who track reports of fireballs in the sky have
received reports about what happened Monday night.

Emergency dispatchers in Perry County said they took 60 calls
from people who saw the event.

One man even said the sound was so loud it shook his house,
and a woman reported seeing what looked like a shooting star
20 feet above her house in Wilson County.
Received on Wed 27 Jul 2005 01:54:55 PM PDT