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Re: (meteorobs) Question on a Meteor Sighting - in the 60's
In a message dated 4/21/2003 9:41:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kimhay@kingstondot net writes:
I think this has been discussed before, but I am wondering , in the 1960's around
1967 there was a fireball that went up the eastern seaboard.
Does anyone remember this event, was there any pictures, and was anything ever
found?
You may very well be referring to the spectacular fireball of Monday, April 25, 1966, which swept across the sky on a south-to-north trajectory and passed over the New York Metropolitan Area shortly after 7:30 p.m. EDT. I remember this event all too well because I was living in The Bronx at that time and was inside my house when the fireball streaked across the sky!
Many of my friends on the block (who were finishing up a stickball game at that hour) saw it . . . but me . . . the kid who even then was heavily into space and astronomy missed it entirely!
It made front-page news headlines later that night and all of the next day, but I saw nothing of it.
On Friday it will be 37 years. And to this very day I still can't measure the disappointment! :(
-- joe rao
PS Check the June 1966 issue of Sky & Tel for photos and more details.