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Re: Overnight Fireball in Connecticut


-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Overnight Fireball in Connecticut


|>Obviously these are two different events:-), but to clear up some
|>misconceptions.  Unless one suffers from a 'depth perception' problem, I
|>doubt that a bolide and ball lightening could be confused.
|
|Actually, it is usually extremely difficult to accurately judge the
distance
|to a bolide, particularly at night.  Some people have observed a bolide
which
|they think is only 100 yards away, when in fact, it is 400 miles away.
|The accurate way to get the distance to a bolide is to have people observe
|the bolide from different vantage points, and triangulate the position of
the
|bolide.
|
|Ron Baalke

|Hi Ron and List,

Yes.  While it is true that it is very difficult to judge the distance of a
bolide, my particular statement referred to the 'comparitive analysis' of a
bolide and ball lightening.  Ball lightening is only the size of a
grapefruit or orange.

Best Wishes,
Julia

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