[meteorite-list] NPA 10-10-1992 Peekskill Meteor Seen from Albany, NY

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Syracuse Herald-Journal
City: Syracuse, New York
Date: Saturday, October 10, 1992
Page: A1

Meteor shower brightens sky

     ALBANY - Hundred of meteors danced through the skies in the Western 
Hemisphere overnight, exciting star gazers and grabbing the attention of UFO 
watchers up and down the East Coast.
    "I've never seen anything like it in my life," said Phillip Hillen of 
Penfield. "This thing, whatever it was, I'd say it was a thousand feet high. 
  As it went over our tree in back...it had a color I'd never seen before.  
It dropped out of sight and I expected an explosion."
     What Hillen saw was one of Friday night's display of blue, green and 
red shooting stars, known as Draconids.  The shower may still be around 
today, though with less intensity, said Rich Mamrosh, meteorologist at 
National Weather Service in Buffalo.
     A meteor, or shooting star, is a piece of rock that begins to burn and 
glow because of intense heat caused by the friction of hitting the earth's 
atmosphere, Mamrosh said.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
Wichita, Kansas
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