Iowa Fireball April 14th, 2010 10:00 PM
by Mike Hankey, under Misc
Hundreds of reports of a fireball in the sky above Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois are flooding news and police stations, blogs and social networking sites. A few videos have already been posted online:
Awesome Video of Iowa Fireball
Information is still poring in on this one. It looks like there is already a lot of data and witnesses which makes the initial meteorite recovery outlook pretty good.
Here are a few news stories
http://addins.kwwl.com/blogs/weather/archives/8863
http://blogs.woodtv.com/2010/04/14/gigantic-meteor/
http://bit.ly/9YE7WS
http://ow.ly/1yFHQ
I’d guess there will be some meteorite hunters flying out to Iowa tomorrow.
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