Looking at several sources, no reported impact yet of Monday's
meteorite.
Here are some more NWS reports on Monday's meteorite:
FXUS61 KCTP 240101
AFDCTP
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
905 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2001
STILL BUSY FIELDING A LOT OF CALLS ABOUT THIS EVENING'S METEOR.
FORTUNATELY ALL WEATHER BEHAVING AS CURRENTLY FORECAST...SO NO MAJOR
CHANGES EXPECTED FOR THE OVERNIGHT.
I PERSONALLY WITNESSED THE METEOR RIGHT AROUND 630 PM. I WAS FACING
NORTHEAST AND SAW AN EXTREMELY BRIGHT BALL OF LIGHT TRAVELING AT A HIGH
RATE OF SPEED FROM RIGHT TO LEFT (MOSTLY SOUTH TO NORTH) AT ABOUT A 45
DEGREE ANGLE ELEVATION WITH THE GROUND. THE BRIGHT LIGHT CEASED
ABRUPTLY BEFORE THE OBJECT REACHED THE HORIZON...LEADING ME TO BELIEVE
IT EITHER BURNED UP OR FULLY ENTERED THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. A THIN
PLUME OF SMOKE RESEMBLING AN AIRPLANE CONTRAIL WAS LEFT IN ITS WAKE. I
ATTEMPTED TO LOCATED THIS ON GOES IMAGERY BUT HAVE SO FAR BEEN
UNSUCCESSFUL.
OTHERWISE ANOTHER QUIET EVENING.
.CTP...NONE.
DEVOIR
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FXUS61 KLWX 240100
AFDLWX
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 900 PM EDT MON JUL 23 2001
CURRENT FCST ON TRACK WITH NO UPDATE PLANNED...
THE WEATHER IS QUIET THIS EVENING...BUT THE PHONES DID RING OFF THE HOOK
FOR A WHILE WITH REPORTS OF VERY LARGE BRIGHT OBJECTS FALLING OUT OF THE
SKY BETWEEN 6PM AND 630PM. REPORTS CAME IN FM ERN WV TO THE MD ERN
SHORE. WE STILL DON'T KNOW THE ORIGIN OF THESE OBJECTS AS OF 8PM. DULLES
TOWER OFFICIALS SPOTTED WHAT THEY CALLED A VERY LARGE AND BRIGHT METEOR
SHORTLY AFTER 6 PM. WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY CONFIRMED REPORTS OF ANY OF THE
OBJECTS REACHING THE GROUND. NOW BACK TO THE WEATHER...
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These wire service reports were available at 2:30am today:
Reuters
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010723/sc/life_sightings_dc_3.html
AP
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010724/us/meteor_showers_5.html
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The only damage reported was at Mountoursville PA, where an apparent
sonic boom broke a window. The town is near Williamsport, in north
central PA, and the link to the local paper, which has 2 stories on the
event, is at
Hopefully video will turn up of it, but since it lasted only a second, i
might be optimistic.
Steve Minghini
Winchester (nw) VA
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