[meteorite-list] Possible Meteorites on the Ground in Tennessee

From: Robert Woolard <meteoritefinder_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:31:22 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <988059.97581.qm_at_web39603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi all,

? If you haven't already seen today's Spaceweather page, it says the following:

TENNESSEE FIREBALL: Space rocks have landed in Tennessee. That's the conclusion of researchers who recorded a brilliant fireball streaking over the Smoky Mountain state on Wednesday evening. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office reports: "On April 6th at 8:21:57 CDT, NASA all-sky meteor cameras detected a very bright fireball moving north across the state of Tennessee. First detected 52 miles above the Arnold Air Force base near Tullahoma, the meteor was brighter than crescent Moon and was approximately 2 feet in diameter, with a weight of 200 lbs. It was last recorded 30 miles above the town of Woodbury, Tennessee, moving at a speed of approximately 9 miles per second (32,400 mph)." Cooke continues: "The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office has reasonable confidence that some fraction of this meteor survived to the ground as one or more meteorites. Calculations are underway to determine the general impact location, which may lie close to the
 Kentucky border."

? Any of our great radar-wonder-wizards working on this one yet???

? Best wishes,
? Robert Woolard
?





      
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