[meteorite-list] Meteor strikes Alex City house?

From: ken newton <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:27:01 -0500
Message-ID: <45ADA595.5030302_at_earthlink.net>

What I find strange is the part about birds hitting the house "all the
time".
Unless he meant birds flying into closed windows??
Also the article fails to mention that Mr. Tapley's house is about
2300 feet SW of the departure end of the local airport. Hmmm?
http://www.pettyurl.com/7q3
Best,
Ken Newton
IMCA #9632


 

>>http://www.alexcityoutlook.com/articles/2007/01/16/news/news05.txt
>>
>>Saturday night Richard Tapley was relaxing in his easy chair watching a
>>National Football
>>League playoff game, and then heard a big thud outside his Warren Circle
>>home.
>>
>>"I thought it was another bird hitting the house; it happens all the
>>time," Tapley said.
>>
>>He got up from his chair and went to the front door to see if he could see
>>anything.
>>
>>Nothing.
>>
>>So what was it that hit Tapley's house?
>>
>>A bird? A rock?
>>
>>
>>Or how about a meteor?
>>
>>That is what Tapley concluded had hit his home Saturday afternoon when he
>>found a rock-
>>like object in front of his front door.
>>
>>Now it's a matter of proving that it's a meteorite.
>>
>>"I've got a [relative] that has taken a fragment to Auburn University to
>>study, and the
>>police department has a fragment," Tapley said.
>>
>>The next scheduled meteor shower for to pass over the United States will
>>be in April,
>>according to NASA's Web site.
>>
>>But on any night, at any location, a few meteors can be seen each hour.
>>These are called
>>sporadic meteors, or simply sporadics, according to NASA.
>>
>>"Occasionally, though, intense meteor displays fill the sky with tens,
>>hundreds, or even
>>thousands of meteor trails. These displays are called meteor showers. Many
>>meteor showers
>>can be predicted, as they repeat every year when the earth passes through
>>the path of a
>>comet. The bits of debris left behind by the comets, most no larger than a
>>grain of sand,
>>create a spectacular light show as they enter the Earth's atmosphere."
>>
>>And Tapley is convinced that it is a meteor that hit his house and not a
>>rock.
>>
>>"It's too large to have been thrown at the house," he said.
>>
>>
>>
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Received on Tue 16 Jan 2007 11:27:01 PM PST