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(meteorobs) More on Southern Ontario Canada fireball...
Greetings all,
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- Cathy Hall
Ottawa, Canada
----- Original Message -----
From: Glen Spooner <gspooner@MNSIdot net>
To: <RASCALS@ap.stmarysdot ca>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [RASCALS] Did anyone hear/feel the meteor?
> Hi All
>
> I was outside looking at the sky, waiting for the harvest moon to appear.
At
> 7;37 there was a "huge" fireball that came in directly overhead and headed
> East. It was blue at the core, trailed by white, trailed by orange. As it
> approached about 30°, it broke apart into several peices and dissapeared.
> There was no lingering trail, and I did not hear any sounds.
>
> At it's brightest it was about -6 mag, much brighter than anything else in
> the sky, except for the sun. My immediate thought was that it was some
space
> debris, it was so unusual.
>
> Glen
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris <chrisbaldock@HOME.COM>
> To: <RASCALS@ap.stmarysdot ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 7:40 AM
> Subject: [RASCALS] Did anyone hear/feel the meteor?
>
>
> Did anyone hear or feel the meteor over Southwestern Ontario last night?
I
> was at home working on my computer beside an open window. Sometime after
> 7:30 PM there was a huge BOOM and then everything shook for about 10
> seconds. The first thought was thunder, but it wasn't cloudy and there
was
> only one boom. The next thought was something exploded. The report on
the
> radio this morning said many people saw a bright flash and heard what
> sounded like an explosion. John Landstreet, astronomy professor at UWO,
> said it was probably a meteor ranging in size from a football to a garbage
> can.
>
> Does anyone have more information?
>
> Chris
>
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