[meteorite-list] Falling Ice chunk in Preston, CT

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Mar 21 13:24:53 2005
Message-ID: <200503022356.j22NuHN10814_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> I just saw a segment on WTNH TV in New Haven, CT which showed a basketball
> sized chunk of ice that hit and dented a roof in Preston, CT. The piece of
> ice was predominantly whitish with varying sizes of dirt and gravel
> embedded. The owner, wisely is preserving the specimen in his freezer. The
> FAA said that no planes were over Preston at the time, but Preston is under
> the flight path of many international flights leaving from the New York
> airports. The skies at the time were variably cloudy and the temp was in
> the upper 30's.
>

It is possible that it is ice from a plane.
I didn't see any mention about the ice on the WTNH TV website:

http://www.wtnh.com/

I did notice too that there was a snow squall last night in that area.

Ron Baalke
Received on Wed 02 Mar 2005 06:56:17 PM PST