I'm now ever more certain there was nothing to the story. I just did a search in the same paper for a followup article and found nothing. However, I did find this bizarre story: +++++ Meteor scare motivates children November 20, 2004 LONDON: A school teacher, trying to motivate her pupils to make the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to hit the Earth and they should all go home and say goodbye to their families, a report said yesterday. The teacher at a high school in Manchester only realized her lecture had been misinterpreted when many of the 250 assembled teenagers started crying, The Sun newspaper reported. After the 13 and 14-year-olds looked at her in horror, the teacher explained she was only trying to encourage them to "seize the day". "Some of the children were convinced they were going to die," the father of one child told the paper. +++++ Another report stated the teacher worked at a Catholic high school. She should have known that at such a school when it came to telling such stories they would have nun of that... :-) Patrick Kim Hyatt wrote:
At first I thought it was Patrick's parachute and that he had landed (sans 'chute) somewhere in the water. Then I noticed that the trajectory was probably too flat too have been a body falling from an airplane.
Regardless...amazing photo, no?
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serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Wiggins<mailto:paw@trilobyte.net> To: Utah Astronomy<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteorite "photographed" hitting Earth
Dale Hooper wrote:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11483286%255E13762,00
Hmmm, is that a bowling ball I see falling away from the lamp post? :-)
Patrickk