[meteorite-list] VideoAtlantans see a visitor from Mars

From: John Teague <volgems_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:06:17 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Message-ID: <13351797.1314889577822.JavaMail.root_at_elwamui-hound.atl.sa.earthlink.net>

Anita!

You know ... if you snooze, you lose! ... right?

There will be enough time for sleeping when you're dead! ;-p

Also, you KNOW that you have true "Dream Job", right? If I lived closer I would be doing volunteer work there (don't think that they would ever get desperate enough to hire me for pay!)!

John

-----Original Message-----
>From: Anita Westlake <anitawestlake at att.net>
>Sent: Sep 1, 2011 10:05 AM
>To: John Teague <volgems at icx.net>, Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] VideoAtlantans see a visitor from Mars
>
>That's where I work! (Except it's called Tellus Science Museum, not "Center")
>Too bad I was home, asleep at the time.
>Anita
>
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>From: John Teague <volgems at icx.net>
>To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Thu, September 1, 2011 9:49:40 AM
>Subject: [meteorite-list] VideoAtlantans see a visitor from Mars
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>Video from Tellus Museum skycam and interview at:
>
>http://duluth.11alive.com/news/news/79929-atlantans-see-visitor-mars
>
>
>CARTERSVILLE, Ga -- If you were awake at about 4:00am Sunday and you were
>outside looking up, you may have seen a bright meteor flash across the sky. It
>happens all the time but not from where the meteor came from.
>
>The meteor was captured from a roof top camera on top of the Tellus Science
>Center in Cartersville. The fish-eye lens camera monitors the skies for NASA.
>Its part of a study NASA is doing on astronaut safety. They are studying the
>dangers debris in space poses to astronauts.
>
>So why was this particular meteor more interesting than others? "It was very
>bright and fireballs that bright are somewhat unusual for us to see," said
>Tellus Astronomy Program Manager David Dundee.
>
>What makes it even more spectacular is the trajectory of where it came from.
>Astronomers determined it came from Mars and lit up the sky over Atlanta,
>traveling from Duluth to just south of Jonesboro before it dissipated 21 miles
>above the earth's surface.
>
>Dundee said it traveled 47 miles in a momentary flash of light. "Either the
>object came from debris near Mars, like from asteroids running into each other
>or something blasted off the surface of Mars," he said.
>
>Dundee said it's not unusual for meteors to flash across the skies of Atlanta.
>He said Tellus' camera sees about six to eight every night. What's different
>about Sunday's meteor is its brightness and where it came from. Usually meteors
>come from the asteroid belt.
>
>As bright as it was, Dundee said the meteor was only about an inch across. "And
>you say an inch across? Why is it so bright? Well, it entered the atmosphere
>going over 52 thousand miles per hour," Dundee said.
>
>A piece of debris from Mars flew over Atlanta for all of us to see and study.
>
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