Impact in South Aferica

[kbs2244]

Leonid Meteor Shower in South Africa

Has anybody heard anything more about this?
The shooting star show was expected, but this one seems pretty big.
And maybe an impact?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UOcRCSx ... =topvideos

[Minimalist]

It was on the news here last night. Nothing about an impact though.

[E.P. Grondine]

From the meteorite list, nothing hit.

Damn - and here many South Africans speak and read English, even though they are not all that wealthy.
Why couldn't the Sulawesi 50 KT airburst earlier this year have happened over Chicago?
Why couldn't the Caranca impactor have hit say Oak Park, or some other major suburb?

But for luck, my book would be selling like crazy, and perhaps even a major publisher would pick it up.

What I really need right now is a nice small impact, say over the cornfields of Illinois.

[Rokcet Scientist]

From the meteorite list, nothing hit.

Damn - and here many South Africans speak and read English, even though they are not all that wealthy.
Why couldn't the Sulawesi 50 KT airburst earlier this year have happened over Chicago?

Yeah, about that one: are there any educated guesses as to that object's size, it's speed, its trajectory, and the altitude at which it exploded? I couldn't find anything on data like that in a quick & dirty Google trawl. Or of the effects a 50 kilotonne explosion should have left below it, on the earth's surface. Like that famous other one at Tunguska did.
I have trouble accepting a 50 kilotonne explosion when there are no visible after effects.

Why couldn't the Caranca impactor have hit say Oak Park, or some other major suburb?

But for luck, my book would be selling like crazy, and perhaps even a major publisher would pick it up.

What I really need right now is a nice small impact, say over the cornfields of Illinois.

Seems to me you're barking up the wrong tree, marketing-wise. You should be selling your book in South Africa and Sulawesi. That's where you'll find a target audience nicely conditioned for your book.

You know the expression: if Mohamed won't move to the mountain, the mountain must move to Mohamed.