FW: [meteorite-list] Great Ball Of Fire Lights Up New Zealand Sky

From: Charles R. Viau <cviau_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:29 2004
Message-ID: <000101c35c1b$a4755090$1800a8c0_at_chupa>

Thanks Ken,

        Thanks for the links, great info! Wonder what is worth more,
the piece of Mars or the bones of the dog... Hope the bones never hit
Ebay...

Charlyv

-----Original Message-----
From: magellon [mailto:magellon_at_earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:35 PM
To: Charles R. Viau
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Great Ball Of Fire Lights Up New Zealand
Sky

Charles,
Walter Branch has kept a detailed record of persons and things that
meteorites have reportedly struck:
http://www.branchmeteorites.com/metstruck.html
I also have list of newspaper accounts of meteorites killing persons:
http://home.earthlink.net/~magellon/news1.html
To complicate matters, a hoaxer working for UP initiated
most of the early newspaper 'death by meteorite' stories:
http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2003-March/018369.html
> Is this work
> taken with any seriousness in the scientific community?
I do not know. There have been so many hoaxes...
Unless stories are corroborated, I do not think they are taken
seriously.
I have not been privileged to read "Rain of Iron and Ice" but hope to
do so in future.
My reference "Uh oh" is to a unending debate between Kevin Kechinka and
Ron Baalke over the 1911 death of the Egyptian dog.
Best,
Ken




"Charles R. Viau" wrote:
>
> I read "Rain of Iron and Ice", by John S. Lewis recently. He claims
that
> there is hard evidence that many people have been killed by meteorites
> over the course of recorded history, especially in China, where the
most
> detailed records of celestial events have been documented. Is this
work
> taken with any seriousness in the scientific community? It even has a
> recommendation written by Carl Sagan. I loved that book, and I think
it
> is a must read for everyone who is interested in meteorites.
>
> CharlyV
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
magellon
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:29 PM
> To: Ron Baalke; meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Great Ball Of Fire Lights Up New Zealand
> Sky
>
> > No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for
> > causing the death of a dog, he said.
>
> Uh oh..... (that dog will never die!:>)
> kn
>
> Ron Baalke wrote:
> >
> > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2600500a11,00.html
> >
> > Great ball of fire lights up Aucklanders' lives
> > www.stuff.co.nz
> > 06 August 2003
> >
> > A spectacular fireball blazed across the northern sky yesterday, a
> piece
> > of the more than 30,000 tonnes of the normally invisible space junk
> that
> > hits Earth each year.
> >
> > Observers in Auckland and from as far away as Whangarei described a
> > flaming, bright-red fireball with a long white tail shooting across
> the
> > sky from the northeast just before 6pm.
> >
> > One man in Auckland suburb Orakei, who reported the sight to One
Tree
> > Hill Stardome Observatory, said the meteor appeared to remain bright
> as
> > it disappeared over the horizon.
> >
> > Another man, who was driving towards the Auckland Harbour Bridge,
said
> > it was "amazing". "I saw the white light first and then it flared
into
> a
> > green flash. I've never seen a green like it before."
> >
> > Stardome spokeswoman Angela Doherty said the fireball, described as
> > having a "lingering white tail", was a piece of either human
> > space junk or space rock "that wandered just a bit too close to
> Earth".
> >
> > Wellington's Carter Observatory spokesman John Field said it would
be
> > difficult to gauge the size of the meteor but said it could have
been
> as
> > big as a fist or the size of a person's head.
> >
> > No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for
> > causing the death of a dog, he said.
> >
> > Most space debris simply fell harmlessly and invisibly to the
ground,
> > heating up and burning as it entered the atmosphere before dropping
to
> > earth.
> >
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