[meteorite-list] Meteor Chunks Crash In South Suburb - illinois

From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:52 2004
Message-ID: <BAA8CFBD.4DB6%mlblood_at_cox.net>

Someone in Chicago (wonder who?) told me Mike
Farmer is there and reporting over 300 (or was it 30?)
stones had already been found.
        Michael

on 3/27/03 3:20 PM, Matt Morgan at mmorgan_at_mhmeteorites.com wrote:

> I heard 12:30 am making it the 27th local time.
>
> walter branch wrote:
>
>> Reports say around "midnight."
>> Does anyone know whether this fell on the 26 or 27?
>>
>> -Walter
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> www.branchmeteorites.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul Heinrich" <lenticulina1_at_yahoo.com>
>> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 11:01 AM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor Chunks Crash In South Suburb - illinois
>>
>>> below are some wbe pages that might be of interest.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>> Baton Rouge, LA
>>>
>>> 1. Meteorite Or Space Debris Falls In Illinois
>>> http://www.wbbm780.com/asp/ViewMoreDetails.asp?ID=20592
>>>
>>> Thursday, March 27, 2003, 7:00 a.m.
>>> By The Associated Press
>>>
>>> "People throughout the state called police after
>>> seeing a flash of bright blue light in the midnight
>>> sky."
>>>
>>> "In a suburb south of Chicago several homes
>>> were struck by what appear to be chunks of
>>> meteorite. The falling objects pierced the roofs
>>> of two homes and the Park Forest fire station,
>>> but no one was injured, said Park Forest Police
>>> Capt. Francis DioGuardi."
>>>
>>> 2. Meteor Chunks Crash In South Suburb, Light
>>> Up Night Sky - Residents from 4 States Report
>>> Seeing Bright Light
>>> http://www.nbc5.com/news/2067595/detail.html
>>>
>>> "PARK FOREST, Ill. -- A freelance photographer
>>> shooting a fire in south suburban Park Forest
>>> captured a bright flash of light (pictured, left)
>>> that "turned midnight to noon" for several
>>> seconds, and police said it appeared it was
>>> the breaking up of a meteorite.
>>>
>>> "Huge chunks of rock-like objects (pictured,
>>> right) from the suspected meteorite damaged
>>> the roofs of two homes, but nobody was injured."
>>>
>>>
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