[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March 26, 2008 / Story

From: Jeff Kuyken <info_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:14:26 +1100
Message-ID: <1C7C07EC11784E11A4C75D927A304E3A_at_JeffPC>

Ahh... after going through another 30 odd emails I see this has been
answered! ;-)

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kuyken" <info at meteorites.com.au>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March
26,2008 / Story


> G'day Bernd & all
>
> I thought of it from the point of view that it can take quite some time
> between the meteor burning out to it hitting the ground due to the
> distance (kms) it must travel. Maybe someone could correct me if I'm wrong
> here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:54 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March
> 26,2008 / Story
>
>
>> Larry writes: "I'd like to share the story of this meteorite's recovery."
>>
>>
>> Thank you Larry for sharing this particular and very personal recovery
>> story!
>> Beautiful story, beautiful PP specimen, indeed! There is one litle detail
>> that
>> piques my curiosity:
>>
>> "He was not yet asleep when he experienced the bright light illuminating
>> his
>> bedroom and the tremendous explosions that followed. A *couple minutes*
>> later
>> he heard a disturbance outside, he said it sounded like something hit his
>> house."
>>
>> In view of the tremendous fireball and the accompanying sound phenomena
>> witnessed by various people here in Europe (especially Switzerland,
>> Southern
>> Germany and Eastern France) ... was it really "a couple minutes later" or
>> was
>> it "a couple seconds later"?
>>
>> As a sidenote: What coincidence as even the time of fall would almost be
>> identical
>> 23:50:26 hrs for Park Forest and ca. 23:45 hrs for the fireball of March
>> 01, 2008!
>>
>> For those interested in reading more about the Park Forest, L5 (S5; W0;
>> br; sv;
>> impact melt pockets) chondrite, here are some stories worth reading or
>> re-reading:
>>
>> BROWN P. (2003) Meteorites Rain on Chicago Suburbs (Sky & Tel., July
>> 2003, p. 25).
>>
>> SIMON S.B. et al. (2003) The fall, recovery, and classification
>> of the Park Forest meteorite (MAPS 38-7, 2003, A139).
>>
>> SIMON S.B. et al. (2004) The fall, recovery, and classification
>> of the Park Forest meteorite (MAPS 39-4, 2004, pp. 625-634).
>>
>> SIPIERA P.P. (2003) The Fall of the Park Forest, Illinois
>> Meteorite (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 08-11).
>>
>> NOTKIN G., SINCLAIR J. (2003) In the Forest of the
>> Night (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 12-14).
>>
>> HOREJSI M. (2003) From the Strewnfields - A Portable
>> Strewnfield (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, p. 25).
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards from the happy owner of
>> 6.5 + 4.7 + 4 + 0.5 + 0.2 grams
>> of the Park Forest meteorite,
>>
>> Bernd
>>
>>
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>> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>>
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