[meteorite-list] Large fireball in PA!--MD or WV more likely

From: Mr EMan <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:37:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <900905.21820.qm_at_web55203.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

I agree with Darren's new info. This is probably not in PA. I have started plots and this looks more like over Maryland's Serpentine Barrens/Belt or more southerly. Which may include West Virginia.

CAUTION: This could very well be in the vicinity of Camp David when more info is confirmed.

Before you leave for the region you might want to see what we can find to narrow it down when we get sensor data. Then again at least the Amish don't shoot trespassers.

Elton

--- On Mon, 7/6/09, Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Darren Garrison <cynapse at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Large fireball in PA!
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 3:39 PM
> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:40:56 -0700
> (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >
> >Alright you aspiring meteorite hunters on the east
> coast, a large fireball with explosions that shook houses in
> PA was reported at 1:10 am this morning! If there are
> explosions, it is close and can be found.
> >No excuses, as some of us are busy in Arizona.
> >Michael Farmer
> >
> >http://www.wgal.com/news/19966650/detail.html
>
> More:
>
> http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2009/07/a_masondixon_meteor.html
>
> A Mason-Dixon meteor?
>
> We have been receiving reports today of a likely meteor
> over north-central
> Maryland and southern Pennsylvania early Monday morning.
> (Not the one in the
> Flickr.com image above.)
>
> Below are the first reports we have received. If you heard
> or saw something
> similar, around the same time, please leave a comment.
> Include the time, your
> location, which direction you saw the object or flash, a
> description of what you
> saw, and note any boom or other sound you heard, as well as
> the time lapse
> between flash and boom.
>
> The York Dispatch:? In York County, Pa., police
> officers from Penn Township,
> Southwestern Regional and Newberry Township reported seeing
> a flash and hearing
> a boom around 1:15 a.m. Monday, July 6, according to local
> 911 centers.
> Officials in Harford County, Md. also reported seeing a
> flash and hearing a boom
> near the Mason-Dixon Line.
>
> Capital Gazette: An Annapolis city police officer reported
> that she and her
> partner both saw what she described as a "bright blue light
> in the sky" just
> after midnight. It was followed by "a light with a tail,
> falling from the sky,"
> according to our informant. Annapolis police reported
> hearing a similar report
> on Baltimore County police radio.
>
> Gary Moon, reporting to The Sun's News Tips: "I heard and
> felt a deep earth
> blast similar to an earthquake, which shook my home in Glen
> Rock, Pa., early
> Monday morning. I thought I would hear MUCH more about this
> one ... nothing."
>
> Deborah Markow, Havre de Grace: "Last night, couldn't
> sleep, went out on back
> deck, laid on lounge, eyes closed and then it was like
> someone pointed a flash
> light in my eyes it was so bright. I saw another one streak
> through the sky ...
> It was one of the most thrilling sights to behold a ball of
> fire flying through
> the sky."
>
> I have not yet seen any meteor reports of this event on the
> American Meteor
> Society's Fireball Sightings Log, but it's early yet, and
> this fireball, coming
> in the wee hours after a long holiday, probably did not
> catch many people out
> and about.
>
> Which makes reports like these, and yours, all the more
> important. If you saw
> this object, be sure to leave a report with the AMS, too.
>
> But judging from the descriptions, it almost certainly was
> a fireball, which is
> simply an especially bright meteor, vaporizing with an
> impressive flash.
>
> Here's a pretty good example on video.
>
> They are sometimes followed by a sonic boom, which would
> explain the booming
> noises in the reports. Some fireball observers - though
> none yet for this event
> - also report a crackling or hissing sound that is
> concurrent with the meteor's
> flash and which has never been fully explained
> scientifically.
>
> Although meteor rates begin to pick up in July, this is not
> the peak time for
> any particular meteor shower. It seems likely this was a
> "sporadic," or isolated
> meteor that just happened to be especially big and bright.
> Big ones like this
> are always unexpected, always startling to witness, and
> always a thrill.
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