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I thought it's a meteorite once it enters Earth's atmosphere and begins to
burn. Now I will look it up.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:46 PM
Subject: Meteorite In Colorado
> At 7:55 this morning, a fairly good sized meteor shot across the Rocky
> Mountains during rush hour. Thousands of people saw it, too. One man
> called a talk show and he had just topped a hill when it shot across the
> sky
> to the west. The sun had just come up in Denver but this thing was bright
> green and left a nice bright green trail across the sky. Even with the
> sun
> just up, this was still bright enough to be clearly visible. One of the
> scientist they interviewed later said he guessed it might have been, based
> upon the large visual display in the sky as it shot across the Rockies,
> that
> it might have been as large as a basket ball when it made its appearance
> in
> the sky. I'd be surprised if it were that big but you never know. Scared
> the crap out of a lot of people, though. Boy, just think of the meteor
> scatter that size would cause on 2 and 6 meters, haw. By the way, they
> said
> when it is in the air it is called a meteor but when it is on the ground
> it
> is called a meteorite. That doesn't sound right but that's what they
> reported.
>
> Phil.
>
> K0NX
> The Zenith Tube
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