[meteorite-list] Meteorite Photographed Hitting The Earth in Australia?

From: Mike Groetz <mpg444_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Nov 23 13:02:01 2004
Message-ID: <20041123180159.49725.qmail_at_web41301.mail.yahoo.com>

Good Afternoon-
   If someone finds a link to the photo- would you
please post it?
Thank You
Mike

--- Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

>
>
>
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11480527%255E13569,00.html
>
> Was this a meteorite?
> By NIGEL ADLAM
> news.com.au (Australi)
> November 24, 2004
>
> Territory scientists were last night studying what
> could be the first
> photograph of a meteorite hitting Earth.
>
> The chances of an impact being captured on film are
> millions to one.
>
> ``If this is true, it's one of the most remarkable
> pictures ever
> taken,'' astronomy tutor Geoff Carr said yesterday.
>
> The photograph was taken by keen amateur
> photographer Wayne Pryde as he
> stood near the Darwin Cenotaph on The Esplanade and
> looked down to Fort
> Hill Wharf on Monday evening.
>
> The meteorite, which could have been as small as a
> grain of sand, would
> have been travelling about 30,000km/h.
>
> Mr Pryde believes a tiny piece of space rock hit the
> top of a 20m lamp
> post on the wharf.
>
> He said the explosion on impact could be seen
> clearly in the photograph.
>
> The ``tube'' created by the meteorite as it hurtled
> towards Earth is
> harder to pick out.
>
> ``I was taking a series of time-lapse pictures of
> the build-up of
> clouds,'' Mr Pryde said.
>
> ``I did not realise I had snapped the meteorite
> until later.''
>
> The wharf lamp bulb was yesterday found to be blown
> but the top of the
> post will not be checked for damage until today.
>
> Experts believe the meteorite may not have hit the
> lamp post, but metal
> elsewhere on the wharf.
>
> Mr Pryde, 31, is an IT expert but he denied the
> photograph had been
> digitally altered.
>
> Photographic experts also said the shot had not been
> doctored.
>
> Mr Carr, who teaches at Charles Darwin University,
> said the picture
> would create interest among astronomers worldwide.
>
> He said most of the thousands of meteors heading
> towards Earth burnt up
> before landing.
>
> ``Nobody has ever photographed one hitting Earth,''
> he said.
>
> Mr Carr said the explosion could have been caused by
> lightning.
>
> ``But I doubt this very much _ the trajectory is too
> straight,'' he said.
>
>
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