Gosh almighty, we have been having what seems to be a large number of fireballs
lately.
I wonder if a "big one" is not headed our way.
And this brings to my mind a terrible nightmare I had when I was 4 years old,
in 1955. I was living in Alamogordo at the time, and I asked my Dad, who was
a rocket technician at White Sands, about the craters on the moon. He told me
that they were most likely caused by meteor impacts. Huge ones.
And I asked him why none on earth then. He told me that there were some,
Meteor Crater as just a small one, but if more craters were here they were
probably eroded away.
That night, I had a terrible dream that a big one hit, and the night sky turned
bright, then red, and in it my Dad ran to the front door, opened it up and
said, "Oh my God, it is the end of the world!"
And I woke up screaming.
I never forgot that dream and the conversation that spawned it.
So even today, I look up to the sky, and read these reports with trepidation.
One would think that I would shun meteorites and refrain from collecting them.
But my curiosity is too great for that.
But the fear remains, that a "big one" might be headed our way...
Steve Schoner
IMCA #4470
[meteorite-list] Earthquake turns out to be an exploding meteorite
Mike Groetz mpg444 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 10 09:53:38 EDT 2009
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http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=12446
Earthquake turns out to be an exploding meteorite
Hundreds of Carinthians were left terrified thinking they had been hit by an
earthquake after a meteorite exploded over their homes early yesterday (Thurs).
Locals said the meteorite exploded at about 3am with what sounded like an
enormous thunder clap followed by rumbling and howling.
Hans Handler from Velden told the newspaper Österreich yesterday: "I though it
was either an earthquake or a crashing airplane."
Experts at an observatory at Gerlitzen near Villach said the meteorite had
reached a temperature of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius after entering the
earth’s atmosphere. They added the bang it had caused had been heard over
a wide area of the province.
Hermann Mucke, the long-time chief of an astronomical office in Vienna, told
the newspaper: "The meteorite produced a glow of an electric nature. Most such
meteorites are detected at altitudes ranging from 80 to 120 kilometres."
Mucke added, however, that it would be impossible to prove that the phenomenon
had been a meteorite. He said there was only one so-called "fireball" camera in
Austria, which was located in the Waldviertel far from Carinthia, and so there
were no photos of what had lit up the Carinthian sky yesterday morning.
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