[meteorite-list] Large Arizona fireball just reported

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:47:49 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <357783.292.qm_at_web110602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Ben,

I remember the 97 fireball well, I assure you, pieces landed.
They were never found though. The USA is pitiful in it's allsky camera coverage. The government should fund them set up all over the country, we would recover most falls if that were the case.
Mike


--- On Mon, 1/19/09, benjamin de la vega <bldlv1964 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: benjamin de la vega <bldlv1964 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Large Arizona fireball just reported
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, meteoriteguy at yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 6:44 PM
> Now give me a break!? Do fireballs hate El Paso?? It's
> warm here too! lol? There was that huge one here in
> 97', the buildings shook and the windows rattled and it
> was a spectacular site.? But nothing landed, boo!
>
> Ben de la Vega
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 1/19/09, Michael Farmer
> <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Large Arizona fireball just
> reported
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 6:30 PM
>
> Wow, the sky is falling these days!
> Bob Haag just called me and told me that he just saw about
> ~1 hour ago, a large
> daylight fireball, headed from south to north, toward
> Phoenix. I spoke to
> someone else and an explosion in the sky was seen from
> North of Phoenix, looking
> south.
> This was still daylight, so it seems to be rather large.
> We will see what turns up on this one, but no ocean to fall
> into here!
> Michael Farmer
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