Mason-Dixon Meteor Interview with Mike Hankey on ABC 2

It was a boom that woke people and shook houses from Aberdeen to southern Pennsylvania. Some experts have called it a meteor and that's brought hunters from across the country to our area, hoping to track down the pieces. ABC2 News Joce Sterman explains how a local man's photograph is helping them find some potentially very expensive rocks.

t shot through the sky like a cannonball on fire, blazing a trail captured on video by the York Water Company. But it wasn't a leftover firework that lit up the sky early Monday morning. Instead many believe it was a meteor.

Freeland resident Mike Hankey believes he has proof. He actually caught the meteor on film. He tells ABC2, "I think it's amazing. It's just a fluke, total luck, destiny, fate, whatever you want to call it." Hankey is an astrophotographer. He used special equipment to capture a super magnified image of the meteor passing through. He says its a nearly impossible feat, I had magnified a thumbnail in the sky. It just happened that it flew through the thumbnail.

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