Hello Listers, Here is a copy of a transcript from the National Weather Service chatroom this evening about the fireball sighting. (10:08:10 PM) nwsdvn-05: fireball observed a little bit ago just to the north of the office (10:10:08 PM) KCRG Justin Gehrts: phones ringing off the hook here about it (10:13:03 PM) KWWL Mark Schnackenberg: DItto (10:13:38 PM) WHBF Ted McInerney: same here in rock island! (10:16:39 PM) WHBF Ted McInerney: meteorite? (10:16:47 PM) nwsdvn-05: very bright fireball (10:17:57 PM) KWWL Mark Schnackenberg: from the North West. (10:21:49 PM) KGAN Mace Michaels: Yeah same here as well. One of our producers outside came in and asked me about it. Pretty bright in the Northern sky (10:26:31 PM) nwsmkx-short: Many calls to NWS offices as far west as Des Moines and Davenport about the fireball/meteorite/space debris(???). The La Crosse office said one caller reported a “boom” as it passed through. Could possibly be a sonic boom as it entered the atmosphere. County sheriff’s deputies from as far north as Portage and Winnebago counties down through Milwaukee and Rock counties have received many reports of a fireball. (10:31:35 PM) nwsmkx-short: it looks as though the Pleasant Hill office outside of Kansas City is also getting reports of a fireball as well. This thing was visible across a large part of the region. In addtion to the trascript, at 10:04pm a live doppler radar at 13 WREX News station may have picked up on the fireball over Southwestern Wisconsin. Here is a link to the doppler radar in question.... http://addins.wrex.com/blogs/weather/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/exactrack_doppler_348a.gif Shawn Alan eBayshop http://shop.ebay.com/photophlow/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
