[meteorite-list] fireball over midwest

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:56:52 -0700
Message-ID: <047f01c7494f$049c61b0$2721500a_at_bellatrix>

Contrary to the article posted by Ron, the fireball was traveling mainly
north to south, and it looks like most of the action was over west
central Illinois. It was west of Champaign. I have independent reports
from Beardstown and Lewistown (30 miles apart) of sonic booms after the
fireball passed overhead, with short enough time delays to suggest that
the object was fairly low at that point (15-20 miles). One witness also
reported electrophonic noise. Termination was probably somewhere between
Beardstown and St Louis.

I'm not investigating this fireball myself, but thought I'd pass along
the information that has come my way.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwin Thompson" <etmeteorites at hotmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] fireball over midwest


> Hello list members. Received two frantic calls from hunters who say
> there was a huge meteor over Illinois, Indiana and reports from
> Missouri. It was talked about by Paul Harvey this morning
> and it sounds like something large came in. Does anyone have more
> details?
>
> Thanks, E.T.
Received on Mon 05 Feb 2007 12:56:52 PM PST