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Date: Mar 17 20:59 2012

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Meteor Breaks Up Over Walker County NASA scientists are taking a real interest in what sounded like thunder over Walker County on the night of Wednesday, March 7. The noise was from a space visitor that travelled hundreds of millions of miles -- but don't panic, it was a meteor that exploded into smaller meteorites as it entered the earth's atmosphere. Read more __________________

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Date: Mar 16 06:37 2012

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Recent meteor may have left pieces in Walker County On Wednesday, March 7, shortly after 10 p.m., a meteor ended its long journey across space just above Walker County. Bill Cooke, Walker County native and current lead member of the NASA Meteorite Environmental Office, confirmed that NASA meteor-tracking cameras in Huntsville, Ala., Tullahoma, Tenn., and at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Ga., detected the bright fireball of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere approximately 52 miles northeast of Rocky Face in Whitfield County at 10:19 p.m. on March 7 Read more __________________

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Date: Mar 14 03:14 2012

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Bright Fireball Over Georgia A camera in Cartersville, Ga., captured this view of a bright fireball over Georgia on the night of Mar. 7, 2012, at approx. 10:19:11 EST. The meteor was first recorded at an altitude of 89.2 km southeast of Tunnel Hill, Ga., moving slightly south of west at approximately 15 km/s. It was last seen 27.2 km above State Road 95, southeast of Rock Springs, Ga. (NASA/MSFC/Meteoroid Environment Office) __________________

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Date: Mar 9 21:34 2012

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Fireball spotted over north Georgia The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office confirmed that a bright fireball streaked across the skies over parts of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia at 10:19 p.m. Wednesday Read more __________________

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