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

[Göran Axelsson]

Interesting... how big was that meteorite?

The reason I ask is because I have an ear witness of the fall a couple 
of years ago in Sweden. Two boys were spending the night in a tent and 
they heard the detonation and a hissing sound. They thought it was a 
trailer that had sprung a leak on a tyre.

We never found that stone but maybe it would be a good place to revisit 
in the summer.
Any idea on how far the sound travels?

/Göran

MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:
> 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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