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- From: gwc@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: bolide sighting
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.163317.17194@uwm.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 16:33:17 GMT
- References: <1992Sep14.013712.1611@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>
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- From article <1992Sep14.013712.1611@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, by lew@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (lewis.h.mammel..jr):
- > At 8:04 PM CDT I saw a bright orange-yellow bolide from
- > Wheaton, IL. It was just about due east near the horizon,
- > south of the rising moon. It appeared to be moving towards
- > the northeast. I actually saw it through a window from inside
- > my house. I could be mistaken, but I've seen bolides before
- > and this looked like one, for sure.
- >
- > Anybody else see it ?
- >
- Following is an item from the Sept 14 Milwaukee Sentinel:
-
- "The sky over Milwaukee's lakefront lighted up briefly with a burning meteor
- or satellite Sunday evening.
-
- "'The phones were ringing off the hook with reports of stuff falling from the
- sky,' said Coast Guard Petty Officer Steve McAloney in Milwaukee.
-
- "Reported sightings came shortly after 8 p.m. from Milwaukee and as far north
- as Port Washington [about 25 north of Milwaukee], McAloney said.
-
- "The Coast Guard's Regional Command Center in Cleveland sent the Milwaukee
- office a message that it had detected a brief meteor shower in the
- Milwaukee Area, perhaps caused by a satellite entering Earth's atmosphere,
- McAloney said.
-
- "No accidents or injuries were reported."
-
- Missed it, myself :(
-
- Greg
-