[meteorite-list] Meteorite fireball burns through South Georgia, Florida skies

From: Shawn Alan <shawnalan_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:34:48 -0700
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I wonder if any have landed?

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Meteorite fireball burns through South Georgia, Florida skies

Posted: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 3:05 pm

 By Terry Richards |CNHI News Service




Meteorite fireball burns through South Georgia, Florida skies
  
By Terry Richards
 

CNHI News Service
 
VALDOSTA ? Dozens of spotters sighted a fireball burning its way
through the skies of South Georgia and North Florida Sunday, and an area
astronomer said it might have been a meteorite making landfall in the
region.
 
More than 100 reports of an "extremely bright daytime fireball" around
10:25 a.m. had been submitted to the American Meteor Society, according
to the group's website. Most of the sightings were to the east and
southeast of Valdosta, though some sightings were made in the
Tallahassee, Florida area to Valdosta's west, according to a map on the
group?s website.
 
Dr. Martha Leake of the physics, astronomy and geosciences department at
Valdosta State University said she was alerted to the fireball by Dr.
William Cooke, a VSU graduate and head of the NASA Meteoroid Environment
Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
 
"Apparently, Doppler weather radar tracked it down to an altitude of a
mile," she said, indicating "significant material on the ground." Leake
said the lack of sightings in and around Valdosta might have been due to
the position of the sun at the time.
 
The potential impact area would be south of Fargo in Clinch County,
Georgia, and northeast of White Springs, Florida, Leake said.
 
"I suspect some of it wound up in the (Okefenokee) swamp or on farmland
south of the swamp," she said.

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