[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March 26, 2008 / S...

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Bernd and All,

One man in Park Forest that I purchased a meteorite  from was driving to his 
house in Park Forest and was at the stop light at the  north central part of 
Steger when he saw the fireball flash and  extinguish.

He went through the light and drove home.  He parked his  car in front of his 
house on the street, and was walking up his driveway when he  heard a 
whistling noise, one that sounded to him like a bullet flying by his  head.  Scared, 
he dove to the ground thinking he was actually being shot  at.  At that 
second, a meteorite hit his asphalt driveway a few feet away  from him.  He 
continued to crawl to his house door and darted  inside.

The next day he heard about the meteorite fall and went out side  and found 
the meteorite specimen in his front yard.  

When I bought  the specimen, he told me the story.  Curiosity had me go to 
that same stop  light later that night when traffic was very light, and I 
retraced his path to  his house.  It took me, as I recall, a little over 4 minutes 
to make the  route to his house and to walk up his driveway.  It is possible he 
was  driving a bit faster than I was, or possibly a bit slower.   

What I remember the most was that it was the delay of the rock hitting  the 
ground almost made the actual fall date to be March 27 instead of being the  
same day as the fireball date of March 26.  But the landing time, even  delayed, 
still would have made it by a few minutes before  midnight.

Steve Arnold
Arkansas
 



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