[meteorite-list] Loud Blast, Red Streaks in Sky Over Ohio

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jun 21 00:52:47 2006
Message-ID: <20060621045150.32770.qmail_at_web36914.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi all -

I think that the SW3 bolides have had a green tinge to
them so far.

Motion appears to have been from Cleveland, to
Pittsburgh, to Philadelphia, to Dover, Delaware. West
to East. Looks like orbital debris, offhand. SW3 frags
so far have travelled mainly from South to North.

On the other hand, it did detonate with a blue light,
which is unusual for orbital junk. A residual fuel
explosion? North Korea's satellite?

Now why couldn't this thing just have detonated dead
over say Philadelphia? Sure, we get a 300 ton blast,
but its in the middle of subartic Norway.

Oh well, this should be good for getting some radio
air time to sell some books anyhow.

all the best,
Ed

--- Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>
> http://www.timesreporter.com/index.php?ID=55330&r=0
>
> Boom lowered on Valley: Loud blast, red streaks in
> sky probably a
> meteor, say experts
>
> By ZACH LINT
> Times-Reporter
> June 20, 2006
>
> Residents of the Tuscarawas Valley who heard a
> deafening boom about
> 12:40 a.m. Monday and stepped outside likely saw
> what one person
> described as "a marvelous fireball with red streaks
> in the sky."
>
> Bob Reed, a meteorologist with the National Weather
> Service in
> Pittsburgh, said it probably was a meteor falling
> through the atmosphere.
>
> "We did receive one call from (Sky Warn) people who
> were basically
> wondering what was causing it," he said. "A meteor
> is the best
> explanation we can come up with at this point."
>
> Sky Warn participants help identify unusual weather
> patterns and spot
> storms in their communities, reporting them to the
> National Weather Service.
>
> Tuscarawas County Sheriff Lt. Lon McEnroe said a
> number of calls were
> fielded by area law enforcement agencies about 12:45
> a.m.
>
> "They told us Stark and Wayne counties all had
> reports of it, too," he said.
>
> Dispatchers from the county's 911 center contacted
> Air Traffic Command
> in Washington, D.C., to inquire about the event. The
> command confirmed
> that Cleveland's control center was checking into a
> meteor shower that
> occurred within its air space.
>
> McEnroe said individual calls ranged from "Did we
> just get bombed?" to
> "It might be a space shuttle."
>
> Numerous callers reported the large red fireball.
> Several said their
> homes shook.
>
> New Philadelphia police said they received reports
> from several callers
> on N. Broadway, Miller Ave. NW and Wabash Ave. NW,
> who witnessed the
> fireball or heard the boom. An E. High Ave. woman
> described it as "a
> blue light that lit up the sky and went down."
>
> Police in Dover said multiple callers reported they
> heard a loud bang
> and something rattled their windows. Officers
> checked all over the city
> and could not find the source of the noise but noted
> there were no power
> outages anywhere.
>
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