[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March 26, 2008 / Story

From: Thetoprok at aol.com <Thetoprok_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:55:38 EDT
Message-ID: <bc1.2be9aa4c.351bda0a_at_aol.com>

Bernd, List,

Thanks to all for the nice comments, It's my pleasure to share the story.

Bernd asked about the amount of time that passed between the explosion and
the fall of stones.
Yes, I asked specifically and he said it was a minute or two, I remember
being a bit surprised at this.
I need to note that I may have made an error. I wrote that the meteorite was
picked up within a minute of falling, but now I'm thinking it may have been
a couple hours. I must be getting old! Either way it never saw the rain that
most other recoveries at Park Forest did.

In a message dated 3/26/2008 10:56:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
bernd.pauli at paulinet.de writes:
Larry writes: "I'd like to share the story of this meteorite's recovery."


Thank you Larry for sharing this particular and very personal recovery story!
Beautiful story, beautiful PP specimen, indeed! There is one litle detail
that
piques my curiosity:

"He was not yet asleep when he experienced the bright light illuminating his
bedroom and the tremendous explosions that followed. A *couple minutes* later
he heard a disturbance outside, he said it sounded like something hit his
house."

In view of the tremendous fireball and the accompanying sound phenomena
witnessed by various people here in Europe (especially Switzerland, Southern
Germany and Eastern France) ... was it really "a couple minutes later" or was
it "a couple seconds later"?

As a sidenote: What coincidence as even the time of fall would almost be
identical
23:50:26 hrs for Park Forest and ca. 23:45 hrs for the fireball of March 01,
2008!

For those interested in reading more about the Park Forest, L5 (S5; W0; br;
sv;
impact melt pockets) chondrite, here are some stories worth reading or
re-reading:

BROWN P. (2003) Meteorites Rain on Chicago Suburbs (Sky & Tel., July 2003,
p. 25).

SIMON S.B. et al. (2003) The fall, recovery, and classification
of the Park Forest meteorite (MAPS 38-7, 2003, A139).

SIMON S.B. et al. (2004) The fall, recovery, and classification
of the Park Forest meteorite (MAPS 39-4, 2004, pp. 625-634).

SIPIERA P.P. (2003) The Fall of the Park Forest, Illinois
Meteorite (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 08-11).

NOTKIN G., SINCLAIR J. (2003) In the Forest of the
Night (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 12-14).

HOREJSI M. (2003) From the Strewnfields - A Portable
Strewnfield (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, p. 25).



Best regards from the happy owner of
6.5 + 4.7 + 4 + 0.5 + 0.2 grams
of the Park Forest meteorite,

Bernd


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