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From: Peiser Benny <B.J.Peiser@livjm.acdot uk>
To: cambridge-conference <cambridge-conference@livjm.acdot uk>
Subject: CCNet, 28 March 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:47:24 +0100

CCNet 49/2001 - 28 March 2001
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(1) BRILLIANT LIGHT PLUNGING INTO PACIFIC MAY HAVE BEEN METEOR

>From Ron Baalke <baalke@jpl.nasadot gov>

Los Angeles Times, 27 March 2001
http://www.latimes.com/news/state/20010327/t000026482.html

A bright red and green light that appeared to plunge into the Pacific Ocean
on Monday night may have been a meteor, an astronomer said. 

About 30 people from Santa Barbara to Marina del Rey called U.S. Coast Guard
and law enforcement officials about 8:20 p.m. to report what they thought
was a meteorite, a flare or a downed aircraft, authorities said. 

Crews in boats and helicopters equipped with infrared scopes were sent to
search for crash debris in Los Angeles Harbor and Marina del Rey, but they
found nothing. 

Paramedic Robert Johnson saw the brilliant burst of light in Sherman Oaks
while sitting around a bonfire with fellow firefighters. 

"I could see how people thought it was a plane," he said. "There were flames
coming out, but they were green and large. 

"This thing was hot and just going before it disappeared below the horizon,"
he said. "I thought it was going to crash into something." 

Troy Powers, a museum guide at Griffith Observatory, said that judging from
the descriptions, "it could have been a meteor." 

"It might have impacted the water, although that's pretty rare," he said.
More likely, he said, "it was a meteor, between the size of a naval orange
and a basketball, about 40 to 50 miles high in the atmosphere." 

Copyright 2001, LA Times

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