[meteorite-list] Asteroid?

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:37 2004
Message-ID: <200212240658.WAA28558_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

> Hello List, I want to ask a weird question. I can't give an exact date, all
> I can tell you is it was in April or may of this year on a week day. At
> about 2:30 or 3:00 in the afternoon in Chandler AZ, I was waiting for my
> wife and child to get out of school (wife was an aid). I was sitting in my
> car and there was teachers and students everywhere. For a split second the
> hole area got darker like we were in a big shadow. It was like a large dark
> cloud passed over.

It was probably a shadow of a plane, and since it had just passed in
front of the Sun, it would be very hard to see from the ground due to
the Sun's overbearing glare.

Ron Baalke
Received on Tue 24 Dec 2002 01:58:43 AM PST