Hi all,
If you haven't already seen today's Spaceweather page, it says the following:
TENNESSEE FIREBALL: Space rocks have landed in Tennessee. That's the conclusion
of researchers who recorded a brilliant fireball streaking over the Smoky
Mountain state on Wednesday evening. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment
Office reports: "On April 6th at 8:21:57 CDT, NASA all-sky meteor cameras
detected a very bright fireball moving north across the state of Tennessee.
First detected 52 miles above the Arnold Air Force base near Tullahoma, the
meteor was brighter than crescent Moon and was approximately 2 feet in
diameter, with a weight of 200 lbs. It was last recorded 30 miles above the
town of Woodbury, Tennessee, moving at a speed of approximately 9 miles per
second (32,400 mph)." Cooke continues: "The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office
has reasonable confidence that some fraction of this meteor survived to the
ground as one or more meteorites. Calculations are underway to determine the
general impact location, which may lie close to the
Kentucky border."
Any of our great radar-wonder-wizards working on this one yet???
Best wishes,
Robert Woolard
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