[meteorite-list] Massive Blast Rocks UK Homes

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Oct 14 02:19:15 2004
Message-ID: <416E188E.EB93342C_at_bhil.com>

Hi,

    A morning meteor (7:30 a.m.) is likely to have a very high entry speed and hence be a good
candidate for an airburst regardless of size.
    If you think of the Earth as a car driving its orbit like a NASCAR racer, the dawn terminator
is the nose of the car, the noon point is the driver's side and midnight is the passenger side.
The sunset terminator is the trunk latch, of course.
    If you think about what happens to those bugs you meet head-on, you can see why an early
morning meteor is much more likely to splat into the atmosphere and pop!


Sterling K. Webb
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> Ron Baalke wrote:
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> >
> >http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/s/133/133432_riddle_as_massive_blast_rocks_homes.html
> >
> >Riddle as massive blast rocks homes
> >Neal Keeling
> >Mancester Online (United Kingdom)
> >October 13, 2004
> >
> >A MYSTERY explosion rocked Greater Manchester today.
> >
> >Police and the fire service received dozens of calls from the public
> >about the blast which happened at 7.30am.
> >
> >But despite efforts by both services to locate the source nothing was found.
> >
> >Fire service spokesman Ian Bailey said: "We had people calling from a
> >wide area - Chorlton, Flixton, Farnworth, and Walkden - saying they had
> >heard a huge explosion.
> >
> >"But we have not responded to any incident which would explain the
> >blast. Some of the control room officers at our headquarters in
> >Pendlebury also heard it."
> >
> >A police spokesman said: "We have not been able to find any explanation
> >and there is no rubble or bricks anywhere."
> >
> >Measurements
> >
> >The British Geological Society is investigating.Though none of their
> >earthquake signals were triggered, it said that it may have been too
> >shallow to register on their measurements.
> >
> >Another possibility is that the blast could have comefrom old mine
> >workings. There are disused shafts in the Walkden area and at Agecroft
> >where a pit closed at the beginning of the 1990s.
> >
> >Lynn Hall, of Sherwood Drive, Pendlebury, said: "At 7.25am this morning
> >I was locking the door of our house and my husband Carl was waiting for
> >me to come out. He said to me `Did you hear that loud bang?' He kept
> >mentioning it because it was so loud."
> >
> >One caller to a radio station has claimed that she saw something falling
> >from the sky. But fire brigade spokesman Paul Duggan said: "If it had
> >been a meteorite we could have expected to have found a crater - which
> >we haven't, unless it is the middle of a golf course or a field."
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