Re: [meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado
A timely cartoon - Frank Ernest, January 6, 2007 http://www.dilbert.com/comics/franknernest/archive/ - John John Kashuba Ontario, California __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5256178,00.html Meteors light up morning sky, or was it something else? By Rocky Mountain News January 4, 2007 It was neither a bird nor a plane, but something lit up the early-morning sky today. The brilliant streaks of light appeared to fall from north to south over the western part of the metro area, CBS 4 News reported. Residents in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico reported seeing the display. Chris Peterson, an astronomer and research associate with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, told CBS 4 News the event was most likely a meteor shower. There have been no reports of debris hitting the ground or of any injuries. - http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/NEWS01/70104004 Bright meteor a sight for Coloradans By LAURA BAILEY The Coloradoan January 4, 2007 A brilliant meteor shower streaked across Colorado skies this morning to the delight of surprised onlookers. Calls to police and media starting coming in shortly after 6:15 a.m. from locals who reported seeing an unreal bright light slowly streaking across the sky from north to south. The light was described as having an extremely bright head with a tail that emitted sparks or smoke. The shower was spotted in southeastern Wyoming and continued down along the Front Range, said meteorologist Don Day. What people witnessed was either a meteor or space junk, such as old satellite debris, he said. Onlookers reported the meteor could be seen for about 30 seconds. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado
Dear Ron and List, Thank you Ron and all of the posters on this fall. This is a case where people had better have their geiger counters along. As Ron and others may have found out it may contain some radioactive material. Best, Dirk Ross..Tokyo --- Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5256178,00.html Meteors light up morning sky, or was it something else? By Rocky Mountain News January 4, 2007 It was neither a bird nor a plane, but something lit up the early-morning sky today. The brilliant streaks of light appeared to fall from north to south over the western part of the metro area, CBS 4 News reported. Residents in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico reported seeing the display. Chris Peterson, an astronomer and research associate with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, told CBS 4 News the event was most likely a meteor shower. There have been no reports of debris hitting the ground or of any injuries. - http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/NEWS01/70104004 Bright meteor a sight for Coloradans By LAURA BAILEY The Coloradoan January 4, 2007 A brilliant meteor shower streaked across Colorado skies this morning to the delight of surprised onlookers. Calls to police and media starting coming in shortly after 6:15 a.m. from locals who reported seeing an unreal bright light slowly streaking across the sky from north to south. The light was described as having an extremely bright head with a tail that emitted sparks or smoke. The shower was spotted in southeastern Wyoming and continued down along the Front Range, said meteorologist Don Day. What people witnessed was either a meteor or space junk, such as old satellite debris, he said. Onlookers reported the meteor could be seen for about 30 seconds. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteors Light Up Morning Sky in Colorado
Dear Ron and List, Thank you Ron and all of the posters on this fall. This is a case where people had better have their geiger counters along. As Ron and others may have found out it may contain some radioactive material. Best, Dirk Ross..Tokyo Not likely you need a geiger counter. It is a normal Soyuz rocket stage. Place, track and time closely coincide with the predicted re-entry of a stage of the Soyuz rocket (06-063B, #29679) used to launch the French COROT space telescope on December 27th from Baikonur. The sighting is only a few minutes later than the nominal predicted decay time, and at the correct geographic location and direction of movement from the last know orbit for this object. The slow movement on the video (assuming the video was real speed) corroborates it was this decay rather than a meteor. - Marco - Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.dmsweb.org priv. website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek - __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
