Re: (meteorobs) FW: Meteor Over Georgia/Alabama?

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) FW: Meteor Over Georgia/Alabama?
• From: MPowerd2B@aol.com
• Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 03:11:56 EDT
• Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
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In a message dated 8/24/1999 1:40:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
meteors@eclipsedot net writes:

<< 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. >>

I wonder what exactly was felt - an atmospheric shock wave or the earth? 
Wouldn't there be a sonic blast too? Has anyone heard of someone feeling a 
meteorite?

Mike
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