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

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:28:26 -0400
Message-ID: <C7CC8C5C1F29406C8F9D378E4F62C378_at_Notebook>

All of these comments are extremely interesting and to the point. It is
something I have pondered and I appreciate everyone's chiming in to bring us
all up to speed.
One never knows when we might experience such a great event. Knowledge is
power.
Jerry Flaherty
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March
26,2008 / S...


> 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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