(meteorobs) Question about daylight fireball event (hisorical).

[Roberto Gorelli]

> ==========================
> Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 11:58:52 +0100
> From: David Entwistle <david.entwistle at dial.pipex.com>
> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> Subject: (meteorobs) Question about daylight fireball event (hisorical).
> ==========================
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Hope some of the more mature members can put me straight about 
> a
> fireball event from some time ago.
> 
> I've been reading a recent on-line article about the Fireball 
> of 24th
> April, 2005.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/c8pnc
> 
> This makes an interesting reference to a fireball from 1966, 
> as follows.
> 
> <start quote>
> While talking about the April 24 event with Richard Sanderson, 
> curator
> of physical science at the Springfield Science Museum, we realized 
> that
> the great fireball of April 25, 1966, occurred 39 years ago almost 
> to
> the day from last week's event. Seen by thousands from Washington, 
> D.C.,
> to eastern Canada, it was the most widely observed and photographed
> fireball of its time.
> 
> Sanderson noted that the museum had possession of a famous 16 
> mm film of
> the 1966 event shot from the Municipal Group in downtown Springfield 
> by
> Channel 22 news photographer George Gambino (see photo).
> <end quote>
> 
> As I couldn't see the photo mentioned, I started to search for
> references to George Gambino, and then after little success, 
> any
> reference to a daylight Fireball, over the USA and Canada, from 
> 1966.
> 
> My search turned up numerous identical references to the following:
> 'Daylight meteor was seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case 
> of a
> meteor entering and leaving the Earth's atmosphere'.
> 
> This (presumably) unique event is variously reported as being 
> from 10
> August 1966...
> 
> http://www.electricscotland.com/history/today/0810.htm
> http://www.globalseek.net/ToDaY/AuGuST/august10.html
> http://rush2jc.50megs.com/0810.html

Perharps it was the event of 25 April 1969
photographied by H.M. Walker from Bangor in
Morth Wales and that was responsable
of the meteorite fall in Prucefield and Bovedy
in Northern Ireland

or the event of 25 April 1966
photographied by V. Schwarz of New Jersey.

Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli



> 
> and 10 August 1972.
> 
> http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/daysAug1.html
> http://www.sheppardsenator.com/archives/2003/080803/1701.shtml
> 
> Can anyone provide a reliable reference for the 'Only known case 
> of a
> meteor entering and leaving the Earth's atmosphere', or the photographs
> of Fireball of 25th April 1966.
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> David Entwistle
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