[meteorite-list] Pasamonte stone! & FILMS

[Walter Branch]

Hi Jeff and List,

Jeff, thanks very much for making these movies available for list (and non 
list) members.  Your video archives and Mark's text archives complement each 
other very nicely.

I witnessed my first fireball a few days ago, on 12/22/05.  I left work 
early that day because I was sick.  I was driving home about 4:00 p.m. It 
was very sunny with only a few clouds.  I happend to be approaching a bridge 
over a river and about a mile of marshland and I saw it traveling from 
roughly east to west, at a very steep angle.  It was breaking up and 
disentegrating and looked a lot like the peekskill videos on Jeff's site. 
This was in broad daylight!  It was amazing.  After years of night-time 
astronomical observations, during which I have seen many sporadic 
meteorites, this was amazing.  The illusion of closeness was very real.  It 
seemed as though I could have driven over the bridge and into the marsh 
(with subsequent explanations to my wife) and there a meteorite would be - 
right in the middle of the marsh!

I will never forget it.  I hope to see one again.

-Walter Branch