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Re: When it's a rock! (was,"RE: When Does a Meteorite become a Meteorite?")
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- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:57:03 EDT
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In a message dated 99-09-13 19:42:48 EDT, you write:
jeffrey<<
So with all this space junk and meteoroid monitoring, has anyone predicted
any
fireballs? Seems like a nice practical use for the data. What is the
sensitivity of our equipment for monitoring?<<
Not that I know of....other than the one's that hit jupiter a few years back.
There seems to be some great difficulty in picking up the larger bodies, yet
alone the small meteoroids. I'd think detecting the smaller meteoroids would
be a very big challenge? By the time someone detected a small meteoroid,
there probably isn't very much time to note this before it enters the
atmosphere it would seem to me?
jeffrey>> Do most meteoroids just come in
too fast to be detected?
>>
For the most part I would say this would be a major problem along with their
smallness.
GeoZay
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