List, Ed, Jim,
The phrase "ashtray belt" can be found in all
follow-on news stories like this one:
http://www.ksbw.com/news/central-california/salinas/Stunning-meteor-showers-wow-Central-Coast-sky-watchers/-/5738906/17042872/-/dia4eb/-/index.html
This is because it originally appeared in the
first Associated Press story. It was shortly
thereafter corrected, but every source that
used that AP item before the correction has
the "ashtray belt" quote in it.
It was a reporter's mishearing the phrase
"asteroid belt" that gave rise to it, I presume,
but how long will the story stick to Jonathan
Braidman, "an astronomer at Oakland's Chabot
Space and Science Center"?
He'll be living in the Ashtray Belt for a heck
of a long time...
Sterling K. Webb
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Deckert" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] It's from the ashtray belt!
Surely he jests! However, if someone actually believes that the
"ashtray belt" exists, they could easily be the butt of that joke.
:-)
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:08 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] It's from the ashtray belt!
The Oakland Tribune reports the exploding streaks were especially
visible
Wednesday night over the San Francisco Bay area and other parts of
Northern
California, with reports of bright fireballs and loud booms from
Santa Cruz
County to Mendocino County.
"Happened to look over, saw like a crescent shaped object, reddish
orange
in color," Edward Pierce told KGO-TV. "As it went away it started
getting
larger. Kind of expanding."
Jonathan Braidman, an astronomer at Oakland's Chabot Space and
Science
Center, told the station what Pierce and others saw were small,
car-sized
pieces of rock and metal from the ashtray belt.
It crashed through the earth's atmosphere, "ionizing and setting the
air on
fire in its wake," he said.
National Weather Service forecaster Steve Anderson tells the Tribune
that
warm temperatures and cloud-free skies are making the bright lights
more
visible, a phenomenon that should only increase as the weekend
approaches and
the shower continues.
The fireballs are part of the large, fast Orionid meteor shower,
so-named
because it has the Orion constellation as a backdrop.
_http://weather.aol.com/2012/10/18/stunning-meteor-showers-blaze-across-cali
fornia-sky/#page=1%3Ficid_
(http://weather.aol.com/2012/10/18/stunning-meteor-showers-blaze-across-california-sky/#page=1?icid)
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