[meteorite-list] Possible Meteorites on the Ground in Tennessee

[Ruben Garcia]

Thanks Marc,

That's what I was getting too! Please let us know if things change....




On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Ruben Garcia <mrmeteorite at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Marc,
>
> That's what I was getting too! Please let us know if things change....
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Marc Fries <chondritehero at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah I'm in DC, scrambling to get some work done before I have to go back to San Diego.  I haven't had much time to look at it, but it appears to terminate east of Nashville.  I pulled the nearby radars and quickly looked them over, and didn't see anything spectacular.  If there are a small number of 100g-ish stones produced, then it wouldn't show up well on radar anyways.  So, nice fireball but no Park Forest.  I'd check the local media and anyone on the ground, but I personally wouldn't fly out for this one.
>>
>> That could change once I do get to sit down with the radar data in earnest, but I suspect Matson had a look as well.
>>
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>> On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Ruben Garcia wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Getting reports that there is not much to it. It seems like a very
>>> small event and not much doppler info.   Darn!
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:08 AM,  <wahlperry at aol.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi Robert and Ruben and List,
>>>>
>>>> Here is a link to the weather in Kentucky it looks ok. This one might be
>>>> worth checking out.
>>>>
>>>> Sonny
>>>>
>>>> http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/kentucky/louisville-2442327/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Ruben Garcia <mrmeteorite at gmail.com>
>>>> To: Robert Woolard <meteoritefinder at yahoo.com>
>>>> Cc: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>>>> Sent: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 3:34 am
>>>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Possible Meteorites on the Ground in Tennessee
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Robert,Nice job on bringing this to the list! Maybe Fries and Matson can
>>>> worksome magic and direct us to some galactic gravel. This one would
>>>> bereally cool for me - it fell on my birthday!On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:31
>>>> AM, Robert Woolard<meteoritefinder at yahoo.com> wrote:> Hi all,>>   If you
>>>> haven't already seen today's Spaceweather page, it says the following:>>
>>>> TENNESSEE FIREBALL: Space rocks have landed in Tennessee. That's the
>>>> conclusion of researchers who recorded a brilliant fireball streaking over
>>>> the Smoky Mountain state on Wednesday evening. Bill Cooke of NASA's
>>>> Meteoroid Environment Office reports: "On April 6th at 8:21:57 CDT, NASA
>>>> all-sky meteor cameras detected a very bright fireball moving north across
>>>> the state of Tennessee. First detected 52 miles above the Arnold Air Force
>>>> base near Tullahoma, the meteor was brighter than crescent Moon and was
>>>> approximately 2 feet in diameter, with a weight of 200 lbs. It was last
>>>> recorded 30 miles above the town of Woodbury, Tennessee, moving at a speed
>>>> of approximately 9 miles per second (32,400 mph)." Cooke continues: "The
>>>> NASA Meteoroid Environment Office has reasonable confidence that some
>>>> fraction of this meteor survived to the ground as one or more meteorites.
>>>> Calculations are underway to determine the general impact location, which
>>>> may lie close to the>  Kentucky border.">>   Any of our great
>>>> radar-wonder-wizards working on this one yet???>>   Best wishes,>   Robert
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