[meteorite-list] New Fall ?

[Jay & Annette]

A group of us from the local astronomy club were out Saturday and we  
saw the double-explosion of the falling object, but it was one  
explosion, then immediately another (back-to-back).  The fall seemed  
to be at a steep incline, instead of a flat one, towards the east.  It  
was all in the same fall, not separated what so ever.  It lit up the  
sky and about blinded us observing.  I figured it was in AZ. but kept  
wondering if anything had survived the actual fall.  Very interesting,  
indeed.  Jason


On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Dennis Wells wrote:


> suspected meteor lights up sky east of Kingman

>

> By JIM SECKLER/The Daily News

>

> Wednesday, April 29, 2009 1:20 AM CDT

>

> KINGMAN - It wasn't Armageddon but Kingman residents and residents

> across Northern Arizona witnessed a fireball late Saturday night.

>

> The Mohave County Sheriff's Office took numerous reports of a fireball

> in the sky near midnight Saturday. One witness saw a bright green glow

> falling from the sky near the Peacock Mountains then reported a big

> white flash of light as it hit the ground. Another witness also saw a

> bright green glow falling from the north/northwest direction. The glow

> seemed to get bigger and bigger until it hit the ground becoming a

> bright orange flash.

>

> Other witnesses also saw a bright green glowing object fall from the

> sky and hit near the Peacock Mountains, also bursting into a big

> orange light, Mohave County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Trish Carter

> said.

>

> The sheriff's office contacted the Federal Aviation Administration,

> which reported that there were no missing airplanes. The sheriff's

> office believes the object was a meteor.

>

> Lowell Observatory spokesman Steele Wotkyns said there were reports

> from Kingman to the New Mexico border of a flash in the sky Saturday

> night. Most meteors burn up before hitting the earth and most are no

> bigger than a grain of sand.

>

> Astronomer Jeff Hall, who works at the Lowell Observatory in

> Flagstaff, also witnessed the fireball around 11 p.m. and possibly a

> second fireball about 30 minutes later. Hall said there is no way of

> knowing how big a meteor is. There were no reports of anyone finding

> the object. If the meteor is the size of a car as it hits the

> atmosphere, it could be big enough to hit the ground depending how it

> enters the atmosphere. A colleague of Hall's said it might be space

> junk.

>

> Generally, meteors travel about 30 miles per second or 108,000 mph.

> Where Saturday night's suspected meteor hit is not known until pieces

> are found. Wotkyns said meteors the size of basketballs hit the earth

> on average one every month but with three-quarters of the earth being

> ocean, most land in the water. Meteors rarely are big enough to hit

> the ground, he added.

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