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

From: Göran Axelsson <axelsson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:26:14 +0100
Message-ID: <47EAF7B6.3080307_at_acc.umu.se>

Interesting... how big was that meteorite?

The reason I ask is because I have an ear witness of the fall a couple
of years ago in Sweden. Two boys were spending the night in a tent and
they heard the detonation and a hissing sound. They thought it was a
trailer that had sprung a leak on a tyre.

We never found that stone but maybe it would be a good place to revisit
in the summer.
Any idea on how far the sound travels?

/G?ran

MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:
> Bernd and All,
>
> One man in Park Forest that I purchased a meteorite from was driving to his
> house in Park Forest and was at the stop light at the north central part of
> Steger when he saw the fireball flash and extinguish.
>
> He went through the light and drove home. He parked his car in front of his
> house on the street, and was walking up his driveway when he heard a
> whistling noise, one that sounded to him like a bullet flying by his head. Scared,
> he dove to the ground thinking he was actually being shot at. At that
> second, a meteorite hit his asphalt driveway a few feet away from him. He
> continued to crawl to his house door and darted inside.
>
> The next day he heard about the meteorite fall and went out side and found
> the meteorite specimen in his front yard.
>
> When I bought the specimen, he told me the story. Curiosity had me go to
> that same stop light later that night when traffic was very light, and I
> retraced his path to his house. It took me, as I recall, a little over 4 minutes
> to make the route to his house and to walk up his driveway. It is possible he
> was driving a bit faster than I was, or possibly a bit slower.
>
> What I remember the most was that it was the delay of the rock hitting the
> ground almost made the actual fall date to be March 27 instead of being the
> same day as the fireball date of March 26. But the landing time, even delayed,
> still would have made it by a few minutes before midnight.
>
> Steve Arnold
> Arkansas
>
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