Cloudy in early am becoming sunny, 50's and windy. I did big wash. No school, spring vacation. Sue at Wayne's, Carol about sick with a cold. Meteorite seen from Washington to Montreal.
Comment: The meteor of that date was big deal and it looks like it went right over the Hubbard Hill area. "April 25, 1966: This brilliant exploding meteor passed northward over New Jersey and eastern New York into Canada along a flat trajectory. Observations were analyzed by both U.S. and Canadian experts, who determined that the end point of the meteor's visible path was at an altitude of around 9 miles (15 kilometers) near Huntingdon, Quebec. Canadian astronomers B.A. McIntosh and J.A.V. Douglas noted, "The anticlimax of so spectacular an event is surely the failure to recover meteorites ... Much of the possible fall area is either sparsely populated or unfavorable terrain for recovery." They suggest that part of the meteoritic mass may have come down in the rugged Adirondack Mountains, along the trajectory but before the end point. " |
| Meteor From Utica, NY |
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