[meteorite-list] Meteor strikes Alex City house?

From: Walter Branch <waltbranch_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:20:18 -0500
Message-ID: <00a501c739c4$e2d7b870$6a01a8c0_at_DrCollman>

Speaking of which.

Has there ever been a recorded meteorite recovery associated with a known
meteor shower (e.g., Leonids etc)? I can't think of any.

Oh, that reminds me of the Flaming Hally's Comet Meteorite Basketball that
was found in the desert. Remember that from about six or seven years ago!

-Walter Branch
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary K. Foote" <gary at webbers.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:09 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor strikes Alex City house?


> No pictures yet... - Gary
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> http://www.alexcityoutlook.com/articles/2007/01/16/news/news05.txt
>
> Saturday night Richard Tapley was relaxing in his easy chair watching a
> National Football
> League playoff game, and then heard a big thud outside his Warren Circle
> home.
>
> "I thought it was another bird hitting the house; it happens all the
> time," Tapley said.
>
> He got up from his chair and went to the front door to see if he could see
> anything.
>
> Nothing.
>
> So what was it that hit Tapley's house?
>
> A bird? A rock?
>
>
> Or how about a meteor?
>
> That is what Tapley concluded had hit his home Saturday afternoon when he
> found a rock-
> like object in front of his front door.
>
> Now it's a matter of proving that it's a meteorite.
>
> "I've got a [relative] that has taken a fragment to Auburn University to
> study, and the
> police department has a fragment," Tapley said.
>
> The next scheduled meteor shower for to pass over the United States will
> be in April,
> according to NASA's Web site.
>
> But on any night, at any location, a few meteors can be seen each hour.
> These are called
> sporadic meteors, or simply sporadics, according to NASA.
>
> "Occasionally, though, intense meteor displays fill the sky with tens,
> hundreds, or even
> thousands of meteor trails. These displays are called meteor showers. Many
> meteor showers
> can be predicted, as they repeat every year when the earth passes through
> the path of a
> comet. The bits of debris left behind by the comets, most no larger than a
> grain of sand,
> create a spectacular light show as they enter the Earth's atmosphere."
>
> And Tapley is convinced that it is a meteor that hit his house and not a
> rock.
>
> "It's too large to have been thrown at the house," he said.
>
>
>
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