[meteorite-list] Help, your opinion needed

From: MarkF <mafer_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jul 9 12:39:39 2005
Message-ID: <001101c584a4$caee8760$04000100_at_MAF>

Hi Tom, Chris and List

In 1999, I was camping in Barkerville, British Columbia and saw the best
fireball. It was heading roughly north and was just super. Big, bright,
flaming Ball. Barkerville is about 2/3'ds of the way up B.C. and with no
light pollution, star gazing is superb!
To see one of these with no distracting light is just unbelievable, colors
stand out and it just makes your night.

Mark Ferguson in a humidity swamped backwater town far far away from nice
mountains
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Knudson" <peregrineflier_at_npgcable.com>
To: "Chris Peterson" <clp_at_alumni.caltech.edu>;
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Help, your opinion needed


> Chris wrote;
> " The illusion of fireball nearness is very strong"
>
> Your not kidding, I once saw a fireball that I looked like you could reach
> out and touch it. I knew better, I knew it was still miles high and many
> miles away, but it sure looked like it was a few feet away.
> Thanks, Tom
> peregrineflier <><
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Peterson" <clp_at_alumni.caltech.edu>
> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Help, your opinion needed
>
>
>> While the object you have sounds interesting, and may or may not be a
>> meteorite, I'd wager that what you saw was actually a good hundred miles
>> away. I get many witness reports for fireballs that insist the event
> skimmed
>> the trees, came down in the field across the street, etc. In no case I've
>> examined have these reports been remotely accurate, and I know of no case
>> ever where a fireball was seen to impact the ground near an observer. The
>> illusion of fireball nearness is very strong.
>>
>> I wouldn't normally try to identify a meteorite from a photograph. I
>> would
>> say that I've never encountered a meteorite with enough iron to show as
>> visible inclusions that wasn't also noticeably ferromagnetic.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> *****************************************
>> Chris L Peterson
>> Cloudbait Observatory
>> http://www.cloudbait.com
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <jwb7772_at_netzero.net>
>> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:14 PM
>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Help, your opinion needed
>>
>> > In 1957 I witnessed a fireball come down from the very start(I was
> looking
>> > in the right place) to it's finish. In fact it came so close I thaught
> it
>> > might hit me, but it slightly arked up and flew over head at about 50
> feet
>> > between me and a telephone poll, droping multi colored teardrops behind
>> > it. It skimed the tree tops two blocks away and landed. It was the
> most
>> > AWSUM thing I have ever seen, at that time. Well some years later I
>> > searched the area and found what looked like a cinder rock. It was all
>> > burned and even had a yellow-green crust in spots. It was not magnetic
>> > but was quite heavy. So I kepted it all of these years thinking it was
>> > not a meteorite.
>> > Well today I cut it open to find bright metal, looks like nickel,
> and
>> > a few white clats (moon type?)
>> > So maybe it could me a meteorite. I also thought impactasite, but
>> > from whare? It has mostly a gray color and sections are of a olive
>> > drab
>> > green color and look quite glassy. And in the holes there seems to
>> > been
> a
>> > green glassy shine. If anyone has any idea as to what it sounds like
>> > please let me know your thoughts. If anyone is interested enough I
> would
>> > be happy to send you a few pictures. Thanks Jim
>>
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