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

[Jerry]

All of these comments are extremely interesting and to the point. It is 
something I have pondered and I appreciate everyone's chiming in to bring us 
all up to speed.
One never knows when we might experience such a great event. Knowledge is 
power.
Jerry Flaherty
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From: <MeteorHntr at aol.com>
To: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March 
26,2008 / S...


> 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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