"It was loud enough to shake the house" (meteor in Missouri) [View All]

NASA suspects meteor in Webster County's big boom.
June 19

Paul Kesterson was getting ready for work Friday morning when two thunderous explosions a split second apart rocked the sky above his home.

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NASA scientist Mike Mumma said the likely culprit was a "sizable" meteor ripping apart as it blasted through the atmosphere at 100,000 mph.

"From the description of buildings and windows shaking, that's a fairly significant sonic boom," said Mumma, chief scientist of planetary research at Goddard Research Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It would have been much larger than fist-sized to make that loud of a noise and generate that much energy. I couldn't speculate how big, though."

Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object monitoring program in Pasadena, Calif., said a meteor that shakes homes and windows could have been the size of a small car.
http://www.news-leader.com/today/0619-Itwasloude-115160.html

Seems like a lot of things falling from the sky lately?

Surprise Meteor Shower Possible in June
June 18

Meteor enthusiasts will likely be out in force in the coming nights, hoping to catch a glimpse of an on-again, off-again meteor display. Special emphasis will be placed on two specific nights: June 22-23 and June 26-27.

Ironically, the month of June is usually not noteworthy for any major meteor showers.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=96&e=2&u=/space/20040618/sc_space/surprisemeteorshowerpossibleinjune

And remember that "snowball intercept" story - a ham radio operator in January supposedly picked up the transmission of a countdown to a June 20 impact? If so, here's something more to make you go oh oh:

Couple dies of apparent murder-suicide
June 17

Hascup and Mr. Stedenfeld would talk about many things but Hascup recalled his friend was particularly interested in meteors. At times, Mr. Stedenfeld would alert his friend of a predicted meteor sighting.

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11990263&BRD=1918&PAG=461&dept_id=506868&rfi=6