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Sonic boom likely caused by meteor CBC News (Canada) September 12, 2003 NANAIMO, B.C. - The boom heard over Nanaimo earlier this week was likely a small meteor, says an astronomy professor at Malaspina University College. Prof. Bill Weller says his analysis of the seismic data from Wednesday afternoon shows a meteor about the size of a toaster could have been responsible for the blast. "It would have come in at quite a high rate of speed, much faster than the speed of sound, and of course it leaves a shockwave. "It's the same thing that you hear behind an aircraft, the sonic boom, after the aircraft breaks the sound barrier," says Weller. A Vancouver astronomer agrees. David Dodge of Vancouver's H.R. MacMillan Space Centre says the sonic boom is consistent with a fireball entering the atmosphere and exploding. Dodge says cloudy skies would have prevented anyone from spotting the small space rock before it burned up. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
