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Re: (meteorobs) some meteors reported
In a message dated 98-01-12 15:27:01 EST, you write:
<< On Thursday, Jan. 8, 1998 a women in Kennewick, Wash. was driving in her
car
and saw this ball of fire trailing orange and red flames. She said it was as
big as her car. She thought it was going hit her and she slammed on her
brakes. The meteor splashed into the Columbia River about 1 or 2 blocks ahead
of her. It was reported in the Seattle Times on January 9, 1998. Another one
came over Colorado Springs, CO at midnight January 11, 1998.
>>
As has been written here before, a meteor gives up all its energy long before
it hits the ground and it actually free falls to the ground "dark". I'm not
doubting her claim but that meteor (if it did hit the ground) could be
anywhere up to 400 miles or more away. Read HH Ninninger's "Catch a Falling
Star," he criss crossed the midwest for hundreds and hundreds of miles looking
for the meteor that according to eye witnesses "landed just in the next
field."
Kevin K