[meteorite-list] Pacific Ocean Meteor seen of Coast of Japan prior to Earthquake 7APR2011

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:13:27 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <648401.39177.qm_at_web161210.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Elizabeth and List (Mike and Jason), Thank you! It appears that you are correct. I had received several queries about a meteor in the area at that time and maybe mis-read the post on SpaceWeather? Dirk...Tokyo


--- On Fri, 4/8/11, Elizabeth Warner <warnerem at astro.umd.edu> wrote:

> From: Elizabeth Warner <warnerem at astro.umd.edu>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pacific Ocean Meteor seen of Coast of Japan prior to Earthquake 7APR2011
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 6:24 AM
> Are you sure??? That looks like an
> airplane to me and no mention of it
> being a meteor is made on spaceweather.com... Rather the
> story is simply
> about the conjunction of the moon with the Pleiades...
>
> Clear Skies!
> Elizabeth
>
>
> On 4/7/2011 5:08 PM, drtanuki wrote:
> > Dear List,? A large bolide passed near Hatoyama,
> Saitama, Japan on 7APR2011 (near my house; of course I
> missed it - winds were blowing to hard to be on the roof) a
> few hours prior to the earthquake.? A photo of the
> event was taken by an mateur astronomer Mitsuo Muraoka in
> Hatoyama out of an observatory.? There is a story on
> SpaceWeather; a link to it is on my site:
> > http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/04/tohoku-another-major-earthquake-will-be.html
> >
> > Best Always, Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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