That, and being visible during daylight hours means it's a HUGE event.
Eric
On 2/14/2011 12:10 PM, actionshoot...@carolina.rr.com wrote:
If I remember correctly isn't 12:45 PM during the day time?? Just a few hours
ago.
---- Mike Hankey<mike.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for sending this out Phil.
There have been over 20 reports to the AMS in the last hour about this.
That is a lot of reports in a short amount of time for a night time
fireball, so it must have been pretty significant.
I ran a quick plot on the AMS reports and it doesn't look good:
http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/comets/daytime-fireball-makes-waves-in-philly-2011-02-14/
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 1:58 PM, JoshuaTreeMuseum
<joshuatreemus...@embarqmail.com> wrote:
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/021411-possible-meteorite-spotted-over-philadelphia
Possible Meteorite Spotted Over Philly
Fox 29 has received several reports of an object that resembled a meteor
that has spotted in the sky near the Philadelphia Navy Yard facility.
The incident happened before 12:45 p.m. ET, according to witnesses who
called Fox 29. There are also reports on Twitter and Facebook about the
incident.
Fox 29 TV reporter Chris O'Connell also saw the object, which he described
as "majestic" and "beautiful," at about 12:35 p.m. as he was driving on I-95
near the airport.
A Fox 29 viewer spotted the object at 12:36 p.m. in Delaware.
There also have been several reports of similar occurrences today in
Connecticut and New York.
Meteorites are naturally occurring objects that originate in space and
survive a fall through Earth's atmosphere. Most are remnants of asteroids or
possibly comets.
The Navy Yard facility is on the Delaware River, which is also used as a
flight path to Philadelphia International Airport.
The American Meteor Society track meteorite spottings but has not yet posted
anything today in its Web site.
If you saw the object, we could like you to contact our Newsdesk at
fox29.newsd...@foxtv.com.
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Phil Whitmer
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