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first tonight people throughout utah are still talking about that space visitor that lit
up the sky hearing this morning
PCR on the European size or is this some sort of majesty
only once every maybe five years or so
today we've been learning about the science of that brought to that in the year that briefly
turn night into day over the western united states wants to borrow is in salt lake city
alex spoke with professors at the university of utah so strong and the department what
are they saying about his new year will be there all say they wish they had seen it with
their own eyes but we do have several video clips of the new year to you haven't seen
it
of course the one question that everybody has
the land on the ground we spoke with several experts who say there's a pretty good chance
that it did in fact one expert give us an idea of where it might be and year's events
you'd sell
Martin partisan he returned
calls came from everywhere again
I'm a restraining order start drying for you
lasater and it came to an end to this city the poll
and when up a whole
read in the paper and salt lake city to a lot of them are the lion are I think professor
David
it's an it's an amazing astronomical from it is the chair of the university of utah's
astronomy departments
he says the energy of the meteor coming into earth's atmosphere was so powerful
it had to be measured in carol what step is almost like a consumption united states or
wants
that was all we have construction sector
those who saw the believe it's I would take a big fireball to reflect the light
I've never seen it before he too says the media like that comes along once every five
years
a camera at the university of you tell us first opaque observatory near milford caught
it's
then got the aftershock rumble a few seconds later
seismology mothers after you picked up the rubble from the air
it's breaking the sound barrier
and so it is creating
it's enough shock waves
seth jarvis clark planetariums director says the media was about the size of a washing
machine then vaporized breaking apart on impacts
however he says there's a good chance some of it landed
and because of all the cameras which record it's you can get a good idea of where it may
have landed if it landed
you can't time
the length of the shadow of the direction of the shadow of the duration
bobbitt and using trigonometry
it's not clear where in the sky relative to that camera
that's source of light was
which leads to you
it's possible that the somewhere out in life west desert
somewhere around there but trust me I mean you go you go out there and you wander around
the socks on the ground all the time
now there is a lot of interest in finding that rocked if it did land already have received
e mails the media hunters in kansas and nebraska
and in Florida asking me if I knew the court that's really the answer but the readings
of the media's the trajectory there's a lot of money of those meteorite city finance they
are worth some money
and it seems like the race to find it if it's a it's already on on the airplane a train
on a track down no clue today