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RE: Adams County meteor

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Dick Pugh enthralled about 50 people Tuesday night with his presentation on the fireball that lit up the sky on the morning of Feb. 19.
Adults and children crowded into the children's section of the Pendleton Public Library to hear Pugh, a scientist with the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory. He provided the latest facts on the meteor and gave suggestions about how to find pieces of the space rock.

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Residents of northeast Oregon and particularly from Wallowa and Union counties are asked to be on the lookout for a stream of meteorites that fell from the Feb. 19 fireball as it blew apart over northeast Oregon early that morning.
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In the early hours of February 19, 2008 a large meteor exploded approximately 17 miles above a rugged and snow covered mountain region near Tollgate, Oregon. It is possible that some material survived and though an actual recovery would be highly unlikely, Rob Wesel, Dave Hess, and Mike Bandli decided it would make for a worthwhile adventure.
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The fireball that streaked across the Mid-Columbia sky Tuesday continues to be a hot topic around the state as witnesses describe the bright flash they saw and others debate whether the meteor hit the ground.
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Despite witness accounts that a meteor that streaked across the Pacific Northwest skies this week struck the Earth, scientists at the University of Washington say it likely disintegrated in the sky.
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Preliminary analysis indicates that any surviving meteorites are located in a strewn field on the prairie outside the town of Pendleton, Oregon, and in the nearby Blue Mountains.

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A fiery ball that flashed across the Calgary skyline early this morning may have been a meteorite reported to have landed in Washington.
The Calgary Fire Department received a report this morning at about 6:30 a.m.

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A meteor zipped across the U.S. Pacific Northwest sky early Tuesday morning before exploding, possibly littering eastern Oregon with marble- to basketball-size space rocks, an expert says.
Impact sites are yet to be found, according to Richard Pugh, a scientist with the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory at Portland State University in Oregon.
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Meteor caught on camera lighting up Northwest Skyline

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At about 5:31 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 19, a bright, flaming fireball streaked across the pre-dawn sky in the Pacific Northwest near Portland, Ore., and exploded with a large blast that lit up the horizon, witnesses say. Security cameras at a Portland hospital captured the fireballs arrival on film, and dozens of reports of eyewitness sightings came in from across Washington and Oregon and even as far away as Idaho and British Columbia. No one has found pieces of the meteorite yet or any craters, but researchers are on the lookout, and suggest that anyone who finds any evidence of it should call the experts.

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