Re: (meteorobs) Garbled media reports?

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• From: "John Krempasky" <johnk@dmv.com>
• Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:09:58 -0400
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:40 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Garbled media reports?


> On TV news this morning they're talking about a "meteor shower"
> last night in the eastern USA -- not saying when it happened.
> As they're mentioning sonic booms, shall I assume they are
> garbled reports of the daylight fireball that André Knöfel said
> was being reported to the Fireball Data Center?
>


Yep, the initial wire service reports were botched with "meteor shower" crap
about what was apparently a single bolide.

And, as usual, they all ran off to call their local universities' astronomy
departments to call people who probably haven't spent more than 5 seconds of
their professional careers thinking about meteors :-)

The supposed impact stuff smells to high heaven to me, too.

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• (meteorobs) Garbled media reports?
• From: Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu>

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