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(meteorobs) FW: Meteor Over Georgia/Alabama?
I had not heard anything about this, so I thought I'd forward it to meteorobs
Wayne
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From: Ron Baalke[SMTP:BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasadot gov]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:00 PM
To: ASTRO-L@uwwvax.uwwdot edu
Subject: Meteor Over Georgia/Alabama?
http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/1999/08/24/boom.html
Rumble ruling: It was a meteor
Kathy Scruggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
August 24, 1999
The rumbling that rattled
the bones of people in western Georgia and eastern Alabama the night of Aug.
2 was not aliens, the space shuttle, or a supersonic aircraft flying
overhead. Nor, apparently, was it an explosion above or below the ground.
"We have determined that it was a meteor--end of discussion," Pamela
Swanson, spokeswoman for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, said
Monday.
An Alabama schoolteacher called authorities to say that she saw the
meteorite and felt its rumblings, said John Bankhead, spokesman for the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Yet that explanation has not completely satisfied Gene Greneker, principal
scientist at Georgia Tech, who indicated there was not enough evidence to
rule out man-made blasts.
"It was not the earth slipping and sliding," he said. "We should have seen
that with . . . seismic monitoring equipment."
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