(meteorobs) Anything unusual over Indiana tonight?

Thomas Dorman drygulch_99 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 13 13:07:12 EDT 2007


CNN web site has a March 7 event of a small meteorite
crashing through a window in Bloomington
Illinose.There is a small thumbnail picture of the
rock.
Regards
Thomas Dorman
Horizon City,Texas
--- Thomas Dorman <drygulch_99 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I believe CNN showed the video from a  police car
> video camera of this event this morning.CNN stated
> that scientist thought it was a meteor about the
> size
> of a baseball.I am not sure if CNN has posted the
> video to the web at their science and technolgy news
> site.You may want to check.
> Regards
> Thomas Dorman
> Horizon City,Texas
> --- Arlene Carol <arlene.carol at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well, This just landed in my mailbox. I wonder if
> > it's connected to whatever
> > was seen in the Midwest...??
> > 
> > do it help solve the mystery?
> > 
> > arlene
> > south of troy
> > 
> >  [image: .] [image: .] [image: .]
> > 
> > 
> > Lights in the sky were no UFO after all
> > 
> > Space rock said to be likely culprit
> > 
> > HEATHER VANDERMEER
> > 
> >
>
<http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/mercury/front;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=[timestamp]?>
> > 
> > GUELPH (Mar 13, 2007)
> > 
> > So, it turns out it wasn't little green men after
> > all.
> > 
> > A bright light that blazed across local skies
> early
> > Sunday evening and
> > spurred much UFO talk was a hunk of space rock or
> > debris probably no larger
> > than a golf ball, said Chris Rutkowski, an author
> > and UFO investigator.
> > 
> > "The object was what we call in astronomy a
> bolide.
> > This particular bolide
> > was between the size of a marble and a golf ball,"
> > Rutkowski said.
> > 
> > Despite varied local witness reports of the meteor
> > seemingly being at a low
> > altitude, Rutkowski said it was at least 50
> > kilometres above ground and
> > disintegrated in the atmosphere far above the
> > ground.
> > 
> > Sightings of its fiery journey were reported from
> > regions just north of
> > Toronto, across southern Ontario, and in parts of
> > Michigan and New York
> > states, said Rutkowski, who is based in Winnipeg
> > 
> > In Wellington County and Guelph, witnesses saw a
> > bright light race across
> > the sky, somewhat similar to a shooting star,
> > spitting off sparks before
> > disappearing. The moments-long light show unfolded
> > around 8 p.m.
> > 
> > Kelly Rutherford of Guelph described her
> experience
> > in witnessing the
> > five-second event with awe.
> > 
> > "My first reaction was that something was burning
> in
> > the sky, and by the
> > direction it was heading I could tell it wasn't
> > fireworks," she said.
> > 
> > Rutherford had been stopped in her car at the
> corner
> > of Woodlawn Road and
> > Woolwich Street when she and her daughter Cierra
> > looked toward the sky to
> > see what she described as "a big white fireball
> > heading toward the ground,
> > about three times the size of regular fireworks
> you
> > would find in a store.
> > 
> > "I read an article with reference to Venus causing
> > the lights in the sky,
> > but unless Venus is huge and moving very quickly,
> I
> > don't think it was
> > that," Rutherford said.
> > 
> > Harriet Bradley, also of Guelph, reported seeing a
> > "fireball-type" streak in
> > the sky through her living room window. It came
> from
> > the northeast and
> > headed southwest.
> > 
> > "It was going so fast I thought it might hit
> > something," Bradley said.
> > 
> > A retired science teacher, Bradley said it looked
> > similar to a shooting
> > star, except very close, and concluded she
> believed
> > it to be a meteorite.
> > 
> > Rutkowski explained a bolide's descent into the
> > atmosphere can cause sparks,
> > such as those witnesses saw Sunday evening, as it
> > disintegrates.
> > 
> > "Bolides are relatively common, with approximately
> > three sightings a year in
> > Canada," Rutkowski said, adding that they rarely
> hit
> > the planet before
> > disintegration.
> > 
> > hvandermeer at guelphmercury.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  )
> >
>
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