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Meteor Wakes Up Pacific Northwest

SEATTLE, June 3, 2004
{Note: Earlier date and denial!}

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/03/tech/main620845.shtml

Why Bernard Hopkins Has More At Stake

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=1282&more=1
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Scientists study lunar rock found in Dhofar

http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=57199&pn=local
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Peninsula: Meteor's unusual flash, boom jar residents from Brinnon to Neah Bay
2004-06-04
by BRENDA HANRAHAN

Residents from Brinnon to Neah Bay reported flashes of light followed by a large booming noise that rattled windows early Thursday as a computer monitor-sized meteor disintegrated above Earth.

http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/165501
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Scientists analyze meteorite that hit Park Forest last year

The meteorites that punched through roofs in Park Forest, Ill., on the evening of March 26, 2003, came from a larger mass that weighed no less than 1,980 pounds before it hit the atmosphere, according to Steven Simon, who led the scientific analyses of the meteorite and who also happens to live in Park Forest

{From UIC}

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040513/meteorite.shtml
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Welcome Visitors, to the World of Meteorites!
Walter Branch, Ph.D.
http://www.branchmeteorites.com

Meteoritical Society
http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/
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Stellar blast draws meteor hunters

Mike Robuck

MONTROSE - Fallout from the meteor early Friday morning continues.

A meteor exploded in the sky somewhere between Colona and Montrose at 2:44 a.m. Friday, which prompted Mike Farmer and a few friends to drive 14 hours from Tucson, Ariz., to look for pieces of the meteor.

http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2004/05/25/local_news/1.txt
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From time-to-time meteorites have struck
man-made objects such as houses, roads, cars,
and even a mailbox (Claxton, 1984), humans
(Sylacauga, 1954) and cows (Valera, 1972)!
Here is a listing of meteorites that have hit
Humans, animals and/or man-made objects (HAMs)!

{Excellent Link}

http://www.branchmeteorites.com/metstruck.html
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Streaks in the sky over Prince Albert
PRINCE ALBERT - The skies were alive over Prince Albert Saturday afternoon.

Gord Harding isn't sure what he saw; he thinks it might have been five or six meteorites. He believes they were travelling too fast to have been aircraft.

http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=meteors040517

One of the things that has puzzled me: If there is an increased incidence of softball-sized meteorites -- just at the lower threshold for surviving the atmospheric plunge -- why is there not a considerable increase in even smaller meteoroids, the grain of sand or pebble-sized rocks that result in common "shooting stars" or meteors? I looked for quite a while the other night and didn't see a single one.

The answer might be that we're simply missing them. Meteors of any kind do tend to come in clusters: if you're not looking at the right place at the right time you'll miss them. I remember during the Puget Sound meteor episode during which time I was watching TV some people were telling of smaller booms long after the larger ones: these could have been smaller peer meteors.

Also, any kind of meteor storm comes at the earth from a certain incidence in the heavens. Only the part of the earth pointed in that direction will see the direct impact of the storm. It would be worth analyzing the recent meteor impacts to determine if the locations on earth correspond to a particular celestial orientation at the time they occurred.