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Re: (meteorobs) Re: Leonid max in Florida+more



In a message dated 12/3/99 5:48:49 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
nmcleod@peganet.com writes:

<< >Is anyone aware of such an object?  I witnessed this as a kid in PA, not
 >sure exactly when (we  moved away in summer 1967).  At or after sunset,
 >in my front yard, I recollect ...
 
 When was the long fireball seen over the NE states in deep twilight around
 then?  I forget the year but 1967 in the fall  comes to mind.  It was the
 first one I recall that somebody actually got a movie of,  and it was shown
 on national TV.  The movie showed a breakup into numerous fragments moving
 slowly in a procession.  Direction was roughly south to north.  But there
 was no mention of sound as Scott described. >>

The fireball in question was that of Monday, April 25, 1966.  I remember it 
well . . . it happened just after 7:30 (EDT) in the evening.  I was living in 
The Bronx at the time.  It actually made the front page of the Daily News the 
next day.  Nobody heard anything in its aftermath.  Some time later I 
remember reading about it in Sky & Telescope.  The trajectory was indeed from 
south to north.  I think it was the late Peter Millman who said that the 
anticlimax of such a spectacle was the failure to recover any meteorites.

-- joe rao    
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