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RE: (meteorobs) ASSOCIATED PRESS: "Meteor sightings light up police phones"

Actually, I just heard a fragmentation report that is on the way to me. And 
the guy I interviewed on Rt 80 said about halfway through the ~ 5 Sec 
flight, there was a burst of smoke that dimmed the fireball, followed by a 
subtle change in direction. I will be measuring the location with him soon, 
and will get a few more details then.

BTW, the AP report in general was crap, which, since most papers just 
carried that the next day, led to the widespread "Meteor shower" mistaken 
identity. Contact I've had with local reporters has been much more 
intelligent, even with people who knew nothing of meteors, fireballs, or 
bolides before hand. Last night was my adult education class, so the focus 
got shifted a bit toward fireballs :-) All were entertained, and a reporter 
came up and spent 3 hours with the NJAA crew learning about fireballs, 
meteors, the Ring Nebula, comet Linear, the 26" NJAA scope, and a heavy 
dose of light pollution!! A most productive night!

Now if it stays clear tonight, I might actually get a few hours of meteor 
observing :-))

Wayne

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From: 	Lew Gramer[SMTP:dedalus@latrade.com]
Sent: 	Friday, July 27, 2001 1:31 PM
To: 	Meteor Observing Mailing List
Subject: 	(meteorobs) ASSOCIATED PRESS: "Meteor sightings light up police 
phones"


A final burst of publicity for Monday's daytime fireball... Interesting was 
the
interpretation from a county communications center in PA. Are there any 
reports
from that State of what looked like significant fragmentation in the 
fireball?

Lew Gramer


------- Forwarded Message

Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 13:08:38 -0400
From: Michael Aramini <Aramini@MA.UltraNet.com>
Subject: "Meteor sightings light up police phones"

The following is a newspaper article which appear in the
_Asbury Park [NJ] Press_:

  Meteor sightings light up police phones

  People from New Jersey and New York to Virginia see blazes in the
  sky; some fear the worst.

  THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

  An apparent meteor shower that last evening triggered a flood of
  calls to emergency authorities in New Jersey and other mid-Atlantic
  states from New York to Virginia.

  At McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County, Airman Sharon
  Carpenter was on break at about 6 p.m. in the air traffic control
  tower when she looked up and saw an orange streak in the sky north
  of the base.

  In less than a second, the westbound streak was gone, seen by no
  other air traffic or radar controllers in the tower.

  "I spent the rest of the night trying to prive to them that I wasn't
  going crazy," Carpenter said.

  And in Capy May, Joe Poole was driving through town around 6:15 p.m.
  when he saw a meteor over an inlet.  It was moving toward the
  horizon in the nortwest, said Poole, who watched it for about 10
  seconds before it disappeared.

  "It seemed to be a very pinkish red with a white center," said
  Poole, 55, a Cape May resident who designs sea search and rescue
  gear.  "There was some blue and green in its tail.

  "It was like a Roman candle," he said.  "And it was large."

  In Pennsylvania, the shower caused some alarm.

  "We originally got a report of a plane crash, and now it seems there
  were multiple meteors coming down," said Tara Dolzani of the
  Schuylkill County communications center.

  There were reports of explosions in Pottsville and Tioga County, Pa.

  Some callers in that state said that they felt their homes shake,
  and others feared a plane crash or thought it was thunder.

------- End of Forwarded Message


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