http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0212/meteorite.html
Astronomy Ireland launches meteorite hunt RTE Interactive February 12, 2003 Astronomy Ireland is seeking reports from eyewitnesses to a fireball which blazed across the Irish sky this morning at approximately 7am. David Moore of Astronomy Ireland told RTE Interactive that the organisation has been inundated with calls from people north and south, and there is a strong chance that a meteorite fell somewhere on this island. "Some people are saying what they saw was brighter than a full moon. Anything brighter than a full moon can drop a meteorite as a result - we definitely have a meteorite to trace," he said. In 1999, the last time a meteorite was spotted in Ireland, astronomers were able to triangulate from callers that it fell somewhere in Carlow. A woman in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, found fragments which were later sold on for about EUR50,000. Mr Moore says that statistically, a meteorite can be expected to fall on Ireland every ten years, but due to factors such as weather and daylight, they might only be found every 50 years. He is asking people who saw a fireball to call (01) 847 0777, and let the society know where they were at the time, where they saw it in the sky, what direction it was going in, and how high it was. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
