The VA-MD sighting is now being classified as the spent Russian Expedition 19 booster: http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1636442.
All the best, Greg -----Original Message----- >From: meteorh...@aol.com >Sent: Mar 30, 2009 12:32 PM >To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded > >Hello List, > >Here is my take on the recent falls in North America. While there actually >may be more now, as it seems like we had a long drought since Park Forest, I >am wandering if much of this can be traced back to Buzzard Coulee. > >The Canadian event gained strong media attention shortly after it fell, and >then the drama provided some great follow up stories as meteorites were >actually found. > >Remember, Park Forest happened a couple weeks into our invasion into Iraq, >and as such did not get anything near what it should have in media coverage. >Monahans fell a couple of days after the Oklahoma City Bombings. Other falls >just didn't get much coverage either. > >I remember in late 2005 (maybe very early 2006) a photographer for the >Wichita Eagle came back to take photos for a follow up Brenham story a month >or so >after the release of the Main Mass find. He told me that the first story >about the Main Mass got more hits on the newspaper's web site than any other >story in the history of the paper! And I checked back after each story and >it >seemed each of the 4 or so follow up meteorite stories in the Wichita paper >were getting the top number of hits in the given month the stories ran. > >Who would have ever thought meteorites were that interesting? > >All of a sudden the Canadian meteor(ite) story gets great coverage, as do >the follow up stories, so editors everywhere now know that local fireball >sightings are good news stories. Not only that, the might even lead to even >bigger stories where meteorites are recovered. > >All in all, I think this is a case that meteorites are rising in stature in >the pop culture. > >Maybe before, there were just as many fireballs, just fewer people may have >reported them, and even fewer editors found them newsworthy. > >I am just hoping for a 1933 rate of local falls with recoveries to hit the >U.S. again! > >Then again, someone up there might be mad at us and is throwing rocks at us! > >Steve Arnold >Arkansas > >**************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy >steps! >(http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220439616x1201372437/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID >%3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) >______________________________________________ >http://www.meteoritecentral.com >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
