[meteorite-list] 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor: a strong link

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:16:52 -0700
Message-ID: <512075D4.1080702_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

I'm surprised you're interested in meteorites, since you clearly lack
even the most basic understanding of meteor radiants- and clearly are
unwilling to learn from people who actually know something.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 2/16/2013 6:52 PM, Bjorn Sorheim wrote:
> Hello List,
> I can't see in any way how your statements can be true, and I wonder
> how anyone can. I would assume NASA has way more educated
> professionals in this than you. Why do they say: 'Preliminary
> information indicates ---
> not related'? They would have been able to refute a strike for all areas
> of Russia according
> to your reasoning.
>
> When an asteroid having a shallow inclination of 10 deg to the
> ecliptical plane,
> that is Earth's orbital plane, and a fragment originating from this,
> travelling parallell
> to this, as I assume the meteorid/asteroid that came down near Chelyabinsk
> did, it will easily hit ANY part of Earth provided it hits when that
> part of Earth is
> facing towards it.
> Giving a large number of objects in a swarm around/forwards/backwards of
> it, these
> fragments from asteroid 2012DA14 will get to ground on all parts of the
> Earth as the Earth
> rotates through the day and night, that should be obvious.
>
> On a psychological note, I observe that none of you have countered any
> given sentence I
> have written on this russian meteor.
> You just manically keep reiterating that they are not related. I can
> only sea
> anxiety behind this.
>
> Sorry, Marco, but you are flatly wrong here. Your statement is absurd.
> Only asteroids with very high inclination of 70-90 degree would behave
> the way you say here.
> We are talking 10 degrees in this case, and your statements are
> ridiculous and shocking.
> You seem to believe that the orbit of 2012DA14 is retrograde, which of
> course it is not.
>
> So please, if you can prove me wrong on any sentence or statement I have
> written, do it.
> But please, Marco, Rob and Chris do it also internally to the other
> members of your
> internal group, and don't behave like a pack of wolves...
>
> I hope also when someone are putting forwards a clearly wrong statement,
> me or anyone else are allowed to denounce that statement from the
> person. I hope we can do so,
> also with a degree of engagement and temperament. I say this also to the
> other readers of this
> discussion, as the temperament here may surprise you. Right or wrong
> staements or
> assumptions make a lot of difference in this case.
>
> Bj?rn S?rheim
Received on Sun 17 Feb 2013 01:16:52 AM PST