[meteorite-list] It's from the ashtray belt!

From: Ed Deckert <edeckert_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:45:13 -0400
Message-ID: <7BDED4F41ADC467AABE9BB0C266795FF_at_MAINPC>

Surely he jests! However, if someone actually believes that the "ashtray
belt" exists, they could easily be the butt of that joke. :-)

Ed

----- Original Message -----
From: <Jimski47 at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:08 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] It's from the ashtray belt!


> The Oakland Tribune reports the exploding streaks were especially visible
> Wednesday night over the San Francisco Bay area and other parts of
> Northern
> California, with reports of bright fireballs and loud booms from Santa
> Cruz
> County to Mendocino County.
>
> "Happened to look over, saw like a crescent shaped object, reddish orange
> in color," Edward Pierce told KGO-TV. "As it went away it started getting
> larger. Kind of expanding."
>
> Jonathan Braidman, an astronomer at Oakland's Chabot Space and Science
> Center, told the station what Pierce and others saw were small, car-sized
> pieces of rock and metal from the ashtray belt.
>
> It crashed through the earth's atmosphere, "ionizing and setting the air
> on
> fire in its wake," he said.
>
> National Weather Service forecaster Steve Anderson tells the Tribune that
> warm temperatures and cloud-free skies are making the bright lights more
> visible, a phenomenon that should only increase as the weekend approaches
> and
> the shower continues.
>
> The fireballs are part of the large, fast Orionid meteor shower, so-named
> because it has the Orion constellation as a backdrop.
>
> _http://weather.aol.com/2012/10/18/stunning-meteor-showers-blaze-across-cali
> fornia-sky/#page=1%3Ficid_
> (http://weather.aol.com/2012/10/18/stunning-meteor-showers-blaze-across-california-sky/#page=1?icid)
>
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