Elizabeth and List (Mike and Jason), Thank you! It appears that you are correct. I had received several queries about a meteor in the area at that time and maybe mis-read the post on SpaceWeather? Dirk...Tokyo
--- On Fri, 4/8/11, Elizabeth Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Elizabeth Warner <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Pacific Ocean Meteor seen of Coast of Japan > prior to Earthquake 7APR2011 > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 6:24 AM > Are you sure??? That looks like an > airplane to me and no mention of it > being a meteor is made on spaceweather.com... Rather the > story is simply > about the conjunction of the moon with the Pleiades... > > Clear Skies! > Elizabeth > > > On 4/7/2011 5:08 PM, drtanuki wrote: > > Dear List, A large bolide passed near Hatoyama, > Saitama, Japan on 7APR2011 (near my house; of course I > missed it - winds were blowing to hard to be on the roof) a > few hours prior to the earthquake. A photo of the > event was taken by an mateur astronomer Mitsuo Muraoka in > Hatoyama out of an observatory. There is a story on > SpaceWeather; a link to it is on my site: > > http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/04/tohoku-another-major-earthquake-will-be.html > > > > Best Always, Dirk Ross...Tokyo > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
