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Re: (IAAC) IAAC now accessible via 'logs@visualdeepsky.org' and'chat@visualdeepsky.org'!



Gentlemen,

This may or may not be related to the events you describe, but Friday
evening (Oct 11, 2002) as me and my family were driving up to Halfway,
Missouri we (my wife and I) saw an extremely brillaint green streak falling
down from the sky dropping apparently very close to the ground before
disintegrating. We were heading WNW with the meteor being visible in the
same direction.  Shortly (~10 minutes) after that event we saw another very
bright meteor, appearing orange, falling due west also breaking up into
visibly smaller fragments. The time was ~8:30-8:45 pm CDT. Both meteors were
very bright and would have been seen with the worst of light pollution.

We still have a month to go before the Leonid max. approaches...

Charles Rose
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Clouse" <dlcdeepsky@insightbb.com>
To: <netastrocatalog-announce@atmob.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: (IAAC) IAAC now accessible via 'logs@visualdeepsky.org'
and'chat@visualdeepsky.org'!


> Barry,
>
> This is likely just an interesting coincidence, but an actual meteor
impact
> was apparently witnessed at the Okie-Tex Star Party --- 3 or 4 days before
> your event.  A couple of largish chunks traveling together?  See message
> 1025 on the AAAAstronomy yahoogroup.
>
> Don Clouse
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy and Barry <Timetrav2@webtv.net>
> To: netastrocatalog-announce@atmob.org
<netastrocatalog-announce@atmob.org>
> Date: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: (IAAC) IAAC now accessible via 'logs@visualdeepsky.org'
> and'chat@visualdeepsky.org'!
>
>
>
> Hi Lew
>
> I am glad I just received your update on the IAAC.  I should have
> written to you last week about this to see if you heard or saw anything
> like what I saw last Thursday evening here in Rhode Island.  I have
> written to all the Frosty Drew crew without out much reply and I also
> tried to start a message thread on saa. but it seems they are involved
> in a lot of Off Topic stuff right now and my message went by pretty much
> unnoticed.
>
> Last Thursday evening I was outside talking with a couple of friends of
> mine  at about 8:10 PM when there was a bright flash similar to
> lighting. It was so bright that the ground around us lit up.  This in
> its self was amazing because we were standing in a brightly lit parking
> lot.
>
> I was lucky enough to be facing in the right direction when the flash
> caught our attention and I was able to look up to the sky to see what
> looked to be a large blue green meteor breaking in two streaking across
> the sky.  The approximate size of the meteor would have been a little
> smaller than the size of your thumb nail held at arms length.  What was
> truly amazing was that up here in Southern New England we were
> completely covered by a 100% cloud cover.  I am not sure the direction
> this object was traveling because I was in a section of town I seldom go
> to and was not sure of my orientation to the sky. My guess would be it
> was traveling from the North to the East.
>
> I was wondering if you heard anything about this meteor or piece of
> space junk.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Barry Martasian
>
> http://community.webtv.net/Timetrav2/TIMETRAVELERS
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