[meteorite-list] Strange Light Over Tennessee May Have BeenExploding Meteor
From: moni waiblinger-seabridge <moni2555_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Jul 28 09:42:48 2005 Message-ID: <BAY103-F4E29A4A4AA20D659E4408CDCF0_at_phx.gbl> Good Morning List, anything new about this sighting? Was a meteorite found yet? Sternrngruss, Moni >From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> >To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List) >Subject: [meteorite-list] Strange Light Over Tennessee May Have >BeenExploding Meteor >Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:54:55 -0700 (PDT) > > > >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. >______________________________________________ >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Thu 28 Jul 2005 09:42:43 AM PDT |
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