[meteorite-list] Meteorite story

[Chris Peterson]

How about this, from a British tourist who was driving across Arizona 
that night:

"We were travelling on our way from Winslow to Holbrook in Arizona on 
the Interstate 40 facing the Holbrook direction (I'm afraid I can't be 
any more specific than that because as visitors to the USA we were 
unfamiliar with the territory). When we first saw it it was in the top 
right of the windscreen and disappeared in the middle of the windscreen. 
It was travelling quite slowly and  must have lasted quite some time 
because I had time to wake my son up and for him to see it before it 
finally went."

Not many meteors last that long!

BTW, the entire event may have been close to a minute. The longest 
camera record was 45 seconds, from Albuquerque. Given local horizons and 
blocking objects, it seems the typical observation time for most 
witnesses was 20-30 seconds.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Freeman mjwy" <dfreeman at fascination.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 10:26 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite story


> Dear List;
> Our daily paper ran a story on the recent Colorado meteor occurrence 
> written by Bill Hethcock of the Gazzette, and quoted Robert Ward as a 
> meteorite collector and hunter....Robert are you a list participant?
> ...Other folks had time to "scamper up on the roof to watch the 
> meteor"............I know it was long, possibly 45 seconds according 
> to the quote by Chris Peterson but...It would take me longer than that 
> to get up on the roof....
> Very Hollywood-like story.  90% of meteorites are magnetic....here we 
> go again with the magnetic thing.
> Dave F.