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In article <3adohi$70e@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> asgard@dakota.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>;This morning there were two "thump-thumps!" that shook 
>;my house...  Funny, I didn't think that you could sonic
>;boom over LA!
>
>;Any info out there?
>
>Could this be a result of the redirected landing of the Space Shuttle at Edwards?
>That is a typical source of _double_ sonic booms, but I thought the landing was
>Monday.

The boom was at 7:27 am and was in fact the shuttle arriving. It didn't seem
to be a double-boom this time, and I have heard many such shuttle-arrival
booms before. I was reading the L.A. Times at that point, and looked for
a shuttle article, which, indeed, indicated it would be arriving on the
west coast because of bad weather in Florida. Someone posted that the
shuttle crossed the coast at San Diego (very unusual - it's normally north
of Vandenberg), so the unusual route may explain why it didn't sound
as it normally does.