---------- Forward Message ---------- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:38:28 -0600 From: Ed Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: (meteorobs) Bolide in Illinois, etc.
These two stories have links to a slideshow which includes a couple of good shots of the roof damage: http://www.nbc5.com/news/2067595/detail.html http://www.nbc5.com/news/2068758/detail.html At least one of the stories I've read mentions people hearing a "thunderous explosion". There's a good pair of photos that show before and during the bright-as-day flash. To Chuck: When this/these hit, they most likely were going the terminal velocity of an object of their size and density in the atmosphere at the altitude of the town. So that would be why the magnitude of the impacts seems small. It would not be very likely that they would reach the surface still going at meteor-type hypervelocity. Ed Cannon - ecannon @ mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
