[meteorite-list] Large Meteor Streaks Across Sky in Hawaii

From: Mike Jensen <meteoriteplaya_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:12:56 -0600
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Hi List
I couldn't have said it better myself ????

"Maberry said the meteor itself would not need to be very large to
make a spectacular show.

"They don't have to be much larger than a poi pounder to look really
big," he said."

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On 4/13/07, Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Apr/12/br/br1498307256.html
>
> 'Very lucky' folks on Maui possibly saw meteor
> By BRIAN PERRY
> The Maui News
> April 12, 2007
>
> WAILUKU - A brightly glowing object that streaked across the sky above
> Maui was reported by a few people up early enough Wednesday morning to
> witness the phenomenon.
>
> The Maui News received several phone calls from people who said they saw
> what probably was a large meteor that moved from northwest to southeast
> or reporting an unusual cloud that remained in the sky after it passed.
>
> Mike Maberry, assistant director of the University of Hawaii Institute
> for Astronomy, said he was not aware of any reports of an object in the
> sky. But he said its description sounded like a meteor.
>
> "Whoever got to see that was very lucky," he said, adding that chances
> are "very slim" of a meteor landing in the vicinity of Maui in the
> middle of the Pacific.
>
> Maberry said the meteor itself would not need to be very large to make a
> spectacular show.
>
> "They don't have to be much larger than a poi pounder to look really
> big," he said.
>
> Many of the meteors that make bright streaks across the night sky are
> only the size of a grain of sand, he said. A meteor is a rock or similar
> solid material that crosses into the Earth's atmosphere, with the
> friction from the high-speed entry causing the material to burn. When a
> space object lands on Earth, it is called a meteorite.
>
> Kaleo Evangelista, a paddler with Kihei Canoe Club who was working out
> with a crew offshore from old Suda Store, said the glowing object made
> quite a show a few minutes after 5:30 a.m.
>
> "We saw a glow going over us, just like an airplane," he said. But
> instead of seeing an aircraft the canoe paddlers saw a light blue,
> almost white object moving from northwest to southeast.
>
> For one to two minutes, the paddlers watched the object move across the
> sky, leaving a trail of smoke before it disappeared behind Haleakala.
> Evangelista said he couldn't tell if the object landed on land or in the
> ocean.
>
> "We didn't see any kind of explosion or flash," he said.
>
> The object traveled roughly parallel to land until it abruptly changed
> course, "dropping down at a 45-degree angle," he said.
>
> Evangelista called his friend, Charlie Fleck, who lives in Wailuku
> Heights. Fleck woke up, stepped outside and snapped photos at 5:49 a.m.
> of the smoke trail with his digital camera, but he didn't see the object
> itself.
>
> "It was just an amazing looking sight," Fleck said. "The smoke lingered
> for an hour in the sky. . . . It was big, very noticeable in the sky."
>
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