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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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