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Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 12:07
PM
Subject: (meteorobs) 1907 Fireball
Hello Everyone,
I have gotten a couple e-mails wondering if Ripley's had contacted me
back. The archive lady I talked with told me she was about to go on
vacation and would be gone till Tuesday, but would try to research it that
day. I guess she didnt have time or couldn't find the reference off
hand. From my experience December has always been the worst month of the
year for trying to do research.
If the original person that posted the Ripley's quotation, can verifiy
that was a quotation and not reworded, or provide information on
what Ripley's book the information came out of might help. The
Ripley search system can search its archives for exact wording...so the
wording provided to the list was the wording I passed along.
I am still looking up other avenues of research as well.
Information provided by Ripley's should point me in a good research
direction.
1907 is pretty close to the turning point in meteor/meteorite newspaper
reports, in the sense that before this time meteorite reports in newspapers
were 8 of 10 false and after/about this time meteorite reports in newspaers
are about 5 out of 10 false.
When I find out more about the event I will report to the list and if I
don't hear from Ripley's by Friday of next week, I'll call and bug them again.
Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com
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