(meteorobs) Geminids and sonic booms

[Roberto G.]

>From: "Kim Youmans" <ksyo at bellsouth.net>

> I received a call from a reporter at the Myrtle Beach Sun-Times a short
> while ago; he stated that many folks had heard a sonic boom last night at
> app. 7:30 and had associated it with meteors.  The reporter also mentioned
> the caveat that the military flies supersonic craft just a few miles
> offshore.
>
> I told the guy I was not aware of any land-falling, sonic boom-creating
> Geminids and that the shower was on its decline last night.  Following the
> blade of Occums razor, I "guessed" that the simplest explanation was a
> military aircraft, heard around the time one or more bright, post-max
> Geminids appeared in the sky.
>
> Would anyone have any further light to shed on the possibility that a
> Geminid might produce a sonic boom?
>
> Kim Youmans

Too in Northern Italy it was heard a sound after some minutes that
it whas saw a Geminid bolid. Geminids come from Phaeton and have
a density biggest of usual meteors, I think that sometime a
meteorite can to fall from Geminids, only from this meteor shower
not from others.
Roberto Gorelli