The folks at the West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center say no veterans, their spouses or caregivers will be turned away after passage of this new law.
The folks at the West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center say no veterans, their spouses or caregivers will be turned away after passage of this new law.
Set a few miles from the sea and surrounded by swampy state parks, Indian River Community College was for years a lone outpost of higher education on Floridaâs Treasure Coast. The nearest universityâFlorida Atlanticâwas nearly 60 miles away, a long haul down I-95 for someone seeking more schooling but bound to her community by a home, a job, a family.
âTo drive an hour-and-a-half one way to take a course at a university at night and backâit was just more than most families could handle,â says Edwin Massey, president emeritus of Indian River.
To help more Florida residents earn advanced credentials, the state expanded its university system in the early 1990s. The Treasure Coast region was in the running for a new institutionâbut the other side of the state won out.
The folks at the West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center say no veterans, their spouses or caregivers will be turned away after passage of this new law.
The fragment entered the atmosphere at a fairly steep angle of 50 degrees and became visible 62 miles above the water southwest of Freeport, Bahamas, according to video from three NASA sky meteor cameras throughout Florida.
NASA astronomer Bill Cooke estimated a 900-pound asteroid fragment hit the Earth s atmosphere at 38,000 mph and broke apart about 23 miles above the Atlantic, causing the fireball.
Though Bell noted that these incidents are sporadic and not connected to any meteor shower, he said seeing a fireball is quite common. You have a good chance of seeing one of these if you spend a decent amount of time outdoors at night, Bell said.