[meteorite-list] Fw: Re: 'Booms' reported in Clayton, Wendell (North Carolina)

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 13:02:36 -0600
Message-ID: <59DD5238880F4772A6F141C387CE5D72_at_bellatrix>

>> my money is
>> on that it was a meteorite reaching below 30 miles above
>> the earth.

That should be a _meteor_ or _meteoroid_ reaching a low height. No way of
knowing whether such a body produced meteorites or not (although a meteoroid
that breaks up low in the atmosphere is one of the indicators of possible
meteorite formation).


Chris

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Groetz" <mpg444 at yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 12:14 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Fw: Re: 'Booms' reported in Clayton,Wendell (North
Carolina)


> George has some really good points about this but is not able to send to
> the list.
>
> Thank you George for typing me (and the list I hope) back.
>
> Mike
>
>
> --- On Mon, 9/8/08, GeoZay at aol.com <GeoZay at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> From: GeoZay at aol.com <GeoZay at aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 'Booms' reported in Clayton, Wendell (North
>> Carolina)
>> To: mpg444 at yahoo.com
>> Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 2:08 PM
>> If the skies were clear and without storms in the area and
>> the air force is
>> accurate about none of their planes were in flight at the
>> time...my money is
>> on that it was a meteorite reaching below 30 miles above
>> the earth. This
>> description is exactly like the one I recorded in 1993 over
>> Southern California.
>> George Zay
>>
>> P.S. This message will not get posted on the list. For some
>> reason my
>> messages don't
>> get posted and I've learned to live with it mostly as a
>> lurker. :O)
Received on Mon 08 Sep 2008 03:02:36 PM PDT