[meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

[Meteorites USA]

Steve,

The increased news coverage of Buzzard Coullee and other falls is 
probably one reason that there's been more reports of fireballs 
recently. Then the one in Sudan which I forgot to mention which was a 
first in the history of man. More people are looking to the skies, so 
awareness seems to play a big part. Maybe that does explain it a bit 
better than an actual increase in numbers of falls. Technological 
advance is another.

I would venture to say maybe it's a combination of all the above. 
Increased awareness due to coverage, technology, and a peak in yearly 
activity. But maybe it is more debris as well. No way to prove that 
other than to look out into space and hope to see more.

Eric

P.S. More falls in 1933? Got any links to good reading?



MeteorHntr at aol.com wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Here is my take on the recent falls in North  America.  While there actually 
> may be more now, as it seems like we had a  long drought since Park Forest, I 
> am wandering if much of this can be traced  back to Buzzard Coulee.
>
> The Canadian event gained strong media attention  shortly after it fell, and 
> then the drama provided some great follow up stories  as meteorites were 
> actually found.  
>
> Remember, Park Forest happened  a couple weeks into our invasion into Iraq, 
> and as such did not get anything  near what it should have in media coverage.  
> Monahans fell a couple of days  after the Oklahoma City Bombings.  Other falls 
> just didn't get much  coverage either.
>
> I remember in late 2005 (maybe very early 2006) a  photographer for the 
> Wichita Eagle came back to take photos for a follow up  Brenham story a month or so 
> after the release of the Main Mass find.  He  told me that the first story 
> about the Main Mass got more hits on the  newspaper's web site than any other 
> story in the history of the paper!  And  I checked back after each story and it 
> seemed each of the 4 or so follow up  meteorite stories in the Wichita paper 
> were getting the top number of hits  in the given month the stories ran.
>
> Who would have ever thought  meteorites were that interesting?
>
> All of a sudden the Canadian  meteor(ite) story gets great coverage, as do 
> the follow up stories, so editors  everywhere now know that local fireball 
> sightings are good news stories.   Not only that, the might even lead to even 
> bigger stories where meteorites are  recovered.
>
> All in all, I think this is a case that meteorites are rising  in stature in 
> the pop culture.  
>
> Maybe before, there were just as  many fireballs, just fewer people may have 
> reported them, and even fewer editors  found them newsworthy.  
>  
> I am just hoping for a 1933 rate of local falls with recoveries to hit the  
> U.S. again!
>
> Then again, someone up there might be mad at us and is  throwing rocks at us!
>
> Steve Arnold
> Arkansas
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