On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:35:52 +0930, "Phillip Smith"
wrote:

Here is what greeted me on the local paper this morning

Was this a meteorite?
By NIGEL ADLAM
24nov04
Territory scientists were last night studying what could be the first
photograph of a meteorite hitting Earth.

Extremely unlikely. You can't get a meteorite that burns all the way to impact
unless it is very big to begin with- several meters at least. This would have
resulted in a huge fireball, sonic booms, a shower of other meteorites, and
other such hard-to-miss stuff.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com