NASA suspects meteor in Webster County's big boom.
June 19
Paul Kesterson was getting ready for work Friday morning when two thunderous explosions a split second apart rocked the sky above his home.
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NASA scientist Mike Mumma said the likely culprit was a "sizable" meteor ripping apart as it blasted through the atmosphere at 100,000 mph.
"From the description of buildings and windows shaking, that's a fairly significant sonic boom," said Mumma, chief scientist of planetary research at Goddard Research Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It would have been much larger than fist-sized to make that loud of a noise and generate that much energy. I couldn't speculate how big, though."
Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object monitoring program in Pasadena, Calif., said a meteor that shakes homes and windows could have been the size of a small car.
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Meteor enthusiasts will likely be out in force in the coming nights, hoping to catch a glimpse of an on-again, off-again meteor display. Special emphasis will be placed on two specific nights: June 22-23 and June 26-27.
Ironically, the month of June is usually not noteworthy for any major meteor showers.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=96&e=2&u=/space/20040618/sc_space/surprisemeteorshowerpossibleinjuneAnd remember that "snowball intercept" story - a ham radio operator in January supposedly picked up the transmission of a countdown to a June 20 impact? If so, here's something more to make you go oh oh:Couple dies of apparent murder-suicideJune 17
Hascup and Mr. Stedenfeld would talk about many things but Hascup recalled his friend was particularly interested in meteors. At times, Mr. Stedenfeld would alert his friend of a predicted meteor sighting.
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