[meteorite-list] Fw: [Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News] Closing in on the Texas Meteorite St...
From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:46:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <723613.74549.qm_at_web53209.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, LunarMeteorite*Hunter <Drtanuki at gmail.com> wrote: > From: LunarMeteorite*Hunter <Drtanuki at gmail.com> > Subject: [Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News] Closing in on the Texas Meteorite St... > To: drtanuki at gmail.com > Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 11:38 PM > Alright I agree that the Austin, Waco, Dallas event was one > event and > was not satellite debris. But if it was a meteor greater > than 1 meter > why didn't STRATCOM report it even earlier (like they > did with the one > over Sudan)? The NEAR project is suppose to track and > report on any > object that size that may strike earth. Also the satellite > collision > could easily produce debris that would re-enter almost > anywhere or > anytime (but maybe not in any direction). Take two car > sized objects > smashing together at 11 km/s. Pieces could have easily shot > downward at > 100 miles/hour which would have re-entered 5-6 hours > later.The radar > tracks you referenced are great Ed. They show any > meteorites would have > landed about 5 kilometers SE of Lake Whitney. Although the > altitude > differences cause a large spread over the possible impact > zone. The > Fort Worth Radar (which I can see from my house) would have > imaged the > one on the right first and the one on the left second. The > Granger > radar would have imaged the lower altitude first and the > higher > altitude second, so yes it would have been a reflection off > an > Ionization trail. The images would have been about a second > and 6 degs > of scan apart. My belief they were separate parts of > something come > from early reports from McKinney saying it was seen in the > north. In > the police dash cam from plano it appears to be going north > to south in > a more vertical direction and very high in the sky. Reports > from Denton > also put it very high in the sky (still confused about how > this could > be). The Austin video was suppose to be taken looking north > giving a > fall area around Marble Falls. So it must have been taken > NE or ENE to > give the low trajectory and east to west appearance. There > is no way an > object 9,000 feet off the ground can be seen from 120 miles > away, so it > must have been over Hearn area from the Austin video. It > would be > interesting to hear more reports from the Whitney, West, > Mart area to > try and determine if there are any possible meteorites from > this > one.Not likely to start any search parties like the > Canadian bolide did > though....Source: Pat Branch, TX, USA > > -- > Posted By LunarMeteorite*Hunter to Latest Worldwide > Meteor/Meteorite > News at 2/17/2009 06:34:00 AM Received on Tue 17 Feb 2009 09:46:07 AM PST |
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