[meteorite-list] Mercury?

From: Ed Majden <epmajden_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:44:15 2004
Message-ID: <007501c100ba$2caf7d60$34974318_at_cc.shawcable.net>

Steve Schoner, AMS wrote:

> Too bad that there was not enough sightings of the Abee fireball to
discern an orbit for it.
>

    For a matter of interest, to determind a good orbit for a fireball, it
MUST be instrumentally recorded as this is the only way to obtain velocity
data which is required. You 'cannot' obtain velocity data from 'visual'
observations. Velocity models can be applied to visual observations but
this will only arrive at a crude probable orbit. Better than nothing but
still just a guess!

Ed Majden
Received on Fri 29 Jun 2001 12:40:15 PM PDT