Hi All: Any reports from NV or NM? From the dozen or so reports I have, NV seems a likely place for this to have fallen. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:22 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteor Seen In Utah, Colorado and Wyoming
> > > http://www.nj.com/newsflash/topstory/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?/cgi -free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0499_BC_WesternFireball&&news&newsflash-topstory > > Meteor seen in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming; green, orange and purple flames > The Associated Press > October 7, 2002 > > SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Residents in Utah, Colorado and southern Wyoming saw a > fireball, which some said had a long tail of green, orange and purple flames > that raced across the night sky. > > "People said it had a 500-foot tail and it was huge, like a meteor, and green > and orange," La Plata County, Colo., sheriff's dispatcher Kristy Lee said. > > The fireball was seen Sunday at 7:30 p.m. > > "It was probably a meteor burning up in the atmosphere," said Peter Wilensky, > meteorologist with the National Weather Service/Colorado Basin River Forecast > Center. > > No man-made objects fell from space Sunday night, said Maj. Ed Thomas, a > spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in > Colorado Springs, Colo., which tracks satellites and space debris. > > "We don't have a mission to track meteorites, but that's got to be what it is," > Thomas said. > > The Weber Area Consolidated Dispatch Center in northern Utah received about 50 > calls, with some callers saying it looked like a plane that crashed. About 10 > officers from three counties responded to the calls and at one point searched > for wreckage, said Weber County sheriff's Sgt. Jeff Lasater. > > The fireball was spotted in Pueblo, Colo., about 100 miles south of Denver, and > in Rawlins, Wyo., about 180 miles northwest of Denver. > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
