[meteorite-list] New Fall ?

From: Jay & Annette <AJSnyder_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:59:45 -0700
Message-ID: <415C787C-3DEC-46E8-B15D-3BA28F68C1D9_at_cox.net>

A group of us from the local astronomy club were out Saturday and we
saw the double-explosion of the falling object, but it was one
explosion, then immediately another (back-to-back). The fall seemed
to be at a steep incline, instead of a flat one, towards the east. It
was all in the same fall, not separated what so ever. It lit up the
sky and about blinded us observing. I figured it was in AZ. but kept
wondering if anything had survived the actual fall. Very interesting,
indeed. Jason


On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Dennis Wells wrote:

> suspected meteor lights up sky east of Kingman
>
> By JIM SECKLER/The Daily News
>
> Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:20 AM CDT
>
> KINGMAN - It wasn't Armageddon but Kingman residents and residents
> across Northern Arizona witnessed a fireball late Saturday night.
>
> The Mohave County Sheriff's Office took numerous reports of a fireball
> in the sky near midnight Saturday. One witness saw a bright green glow
> falling from the sky near the Peacock Mountains then reported a big
> white flash of light as it hit the ground. Another witness also saw a
> bright green glow falling from the north/northwest direction. The glow
> seemed to get bigger and bigger until it hit the ground becoming a
> bright orange flash.
>
> Other witnesses also saw a bright green glowing object fall from the
> sky and hit near the Peacock Mountains, also bursting into a big
> orange light, Mohave County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Trish Carter
> said.
>
> The sheriff's office contacted the Federal Aviation Administration,
> which reported that there were no missing airplanes. The sheriff's
> office believes the object was a meteor.
>
> Lowell Observatory spokesman Steele Wotkyns said there were reports
> from Kingman to the New Mexico border of a flash in the sky Saturday
> night. Most meteors burn up before hitting the earth and most are no
> bigger than a grain of sand.
>
> Astronomer Jeff Hall, who works at the Lowell Observatory in
> Flagstaff, also witnessed the fireball around 11 p.m. and possibly a
> second fireball about 30 minutes later. Hall said there is no way of
> knowing how big a meteor is. There were no reports of anyone finding
> the object. If the meteor is the size of a car as it hits the
> atmosphere, it could be big enough to hit the ground depending how it
> enters the atmosphere. A colleague of Hall's said it might be space
> junk.
>
> Generally, meteors travel about 30 miles per second or 108,000 mph.
> Where Saturday night's suspected meteor hit is not known until pieces
> are found. Wotkyns said meteors the size of basketballs hit the earth
> on average one every month but with three-quarters of the earth being
> ocean, most land in the water. Meteors rarely are big enough to hit
> the ground, he added.
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