Hi All,
Mike is correct. It's the reentry of the CZ-3B rocket body
(International
Designation 2008-028B) that launched Chinasat-9 back in June 2008. The
reentry track goes right over central Saudi Arabia:
http://www.aerospace.org/cords/reentry-predictions/upcoming-reentries-2/
2008-028b/
--Rob
Hi Ron,
In addition, within minutes of the sun-diving Kreutz comet's closest
approach
to the sun, a large coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the sun's
southern
hemisphere in what appears to be about the same direction from which the
comet
came.
Solar scientists have pretty much put to rest
Hi Count,
I absolutely concur that Dirk's efforts seem to be appreciated by many,
but publicly acknowledged by few. So let me go on record thanking Dirk
for his tireless efforts -- more often than not, he is the first to
report on a new potential meteorite-dropping event, and his site is
a
Hi Mike,
The biggest problem as I see it is the reported time -- some time after 5 pm
local time. If this is the time that purported witnesses are claiming, then
it's a hoax: it would require the meteor to be travelling north-to-south as
seen from one location (Matehuala, to the NNE of San Luis
Hi All,
If anyone is interested, for the past 6 months I've been compiling the
closing prices, masses and sellers of eBay Chelyabinsk meteorite sales
in an Excel spreadsheet. The dataset is quite large now (1250 points)
and includes all eBay sales of Chelyabinsk masses greater than or equal
to 3
Hi All,
Jim Wooddell sent a message which I thought went to the list, but I
think
it might not have been in plaintext so it may have gotten held up. In
any
case, the Chelyabinsk price spreadsheet is up on his website at the
following link:
Hi Dan/All,
A live feed of the Delta 4 Heavy launch will be webcast on the ULA
website
starting in about 30 minutes:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/site/pages/Webcast.shtml
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Hi All,
Surprised no one has mentioned yesterday's 1st anniversary of the Battle
Mountain
fall! Perhaps more surprising is that a year has already gone by...
--Rob
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Hi Ron/List,
Back in February, I found better orbital matches to the Chelyabinsk
meteoroid
than 2011 EO40. Using modified Drummond criterion, here were the top-10
minor
planets with orbits most similar to Chelyabinsk:
Target elements (from Borovicka, et al. in IAU circular 3423):
a=1.55 q=0.768
Rerunning with the latest catalog:
Borovicka target elements (q=0.768, e=0.50, i=3.6, peri=109.7,
node=326.41):
Mod. D Minor Planetaq ei PeriNode
--- --- --- --- --
0.01749 2011 EH 1.47945 0.76110
Fortunately, I'm not on his list. I keep a vigilant eye!
Richard: unfortunately, by posting to the Met-List, you will likely
attract his attention as an enemy combatant. I totally feel for Blaine
Blake: they are extremely honest guys fighting an utterly absurd
battle,
and I should think
Hi Jim/List,
You wrote, in part:
While I agree 100% that it's nice to have field datalord
knows I've go through hell with the Franconia project, Stanfield
is a perfect example of this process not working. Has no really
useful field data in regards to assigned numbers. It simply is
not
, Sutters Mill...not working.
To think this will work in the real world, I think, is not practical.
In a perfect world maybe.
I am not ragging on Stanfield at allI hope it did not come across
that way.
Jim
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Hi Jim
Hi Bob,
Here is the question I am posing to the List, stated another way:
If everyone is in agreement with the Jenniskins arrangement, then
why can't the Committee credit UCLA for the type specimen and move
forward with approving at least the name Novato (if need be, at
least
Hi All,
There is an interesting post on SpaceWeather today reporting that a hole
has appeared in one of the many solar panels of the International Space
Station. Here's a link to an image of the hole tweeted by Commander
Chris Hadfield:
Hi Carl,
I've been told provisional names are only given to NWA material and
that all others are referred to as proposed name.
No, this is incorrect. For instance, there are hundreds of meteorites
from dry lakes throughout the desert southwest that have provisional
names/numbers that will
Hi Carsten,
Slow to respond to your list query of a couple weeks ago -- I don't
recall seeing any reply to it:
Does anyone have some informations about a possible Meteorite Fall
(eye witnessed) in Struga, 1972? I already found some informations
in the web, there is also a PDF about chemical
Hi All,
Well, clearly ~some~ material was deposited at UCLA, otherwise
there would be no Novato classification. The issue is instead
one of *sufficient* deposit (20 grams in this case) in a recognized
institution for the Nomenclature Committee to put it up for a vote.
I frankly don't know how
there is no
cause for alarm; people just need to be patient. --Rob
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I think it's amusing that Connecticut-bound space rocks apparently
have a preference for towns beginning with the letter W. ;-) --Rob
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Nothing obvious on NYC or Boston radar within +/- 15 minutes of 10 pm
on Friday night near Wolcott, CT. There are also no reports of the
meteor on the AMS website, though I suppose it could have been cloudy
at the time of the fall. --Rob
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The pictures certainly do look promising for being a meteorite, so it
would be good to get more accurate information on the exact time that
people were reporting sonic booms in coastal Connecticut. --Rob
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Hi Greg,
Good old empty precision on a number converted from metric units.
11,000 metric tons = 24250848.8 lbs. The humorous thing is that
I seriously doubt the original mass is known to better than a
factor of 3, so none of the digits are significant. --Rob
Hi All,
For those that have been following the eBay price history of
Chelyabinsk, the below $10/gram price point was just breached.
($9.32/g for a 63-gram specimen). I have been keeping a log
of all Chelyabinsk eBay sales of stones 3-grams or larger,
and the median price has fallen from about
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Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 1:00 PM
To: Matson, Robert D.
Cc: Meteorite Mailing List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Chelybinsk eBay price history
Just saw that. Not surprisingly the piece is being sold direct from
Chelyabinsk.
Buyers
until a day or two later. --Rob
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Hello Rob and Listers
Thats great :)
But I
Hi Mike,
Wanted to comment that this is the definitive image for proving that
that
East Coast fireball (seen by thousands!) almost certainly ended up in
the
Atlantic Ocean. The image clearly shows the stars of Orion, plus Sirius,
Procyon, Gomeisa, and Alhena. Given that the fireball terminus is
Hi Mike,
I think what Chris is saying is that if you kept the composition,
mass and velocity the same on that asteroid, but had it come in at
a steeper angle, the odds of generating large meteorites on the
ground would have been lower rather than higher. It would have
broken up at a higher
Hi Kelly,
... what Mike Farmer says agrees with Boslough's assessment: had the
impactor come in more vertically, its terminal burst would have been
lower ...
Since the dynamic pressure on the bolide is a function of the square
of its velocity and the atmospheric density, it seems to me that a
Hi Twink,
I very much enjoyed watching the full 30 minutes -- even though
I've never been to Gold Basin, I've houseboated a half-dozen times
at Lake Mead, so the terrain is very familiar. :-) Great to see
so many folks I recognize -- Mike Farmer, Geoff Notkin and Steve
Arnold looked especially
Hi Peter,
I am open to opinions, but, in truth, it is almost an atrocity
the way the objects depicted in some, to my own discredit, less-
than-stellar photographs can be absolutely dismissed off-handedly,
and so quickly!
In this particular case, your pictures are not at fault. They show
Hi All,
While the image-processed STEREO-B images of Comet Pan-STARRS are
impressive, it is a bit disappointing to me that rather basic data
processing techniques have not been applied to the raw data beyond
what appears to be simple median background subtraction. The result
is a distracting
Hi Graham/Jeff/All,
New data puts it so strike likelihood increasing.
http://spaceobs.org/en/2013/02/27/new-data-concerning-the-close-approach
-of-comet-c2013-a1-to-mars/
This is a rapidly evolving situation. Pre-recovery observations of
C/2013 A1 were
reported late last week that were made
Hi Graham,
Keep in mind that asteroid orbits are dynamic, and that most of
the Apollos, Amors and Atens of today once had their aphelia
between Mars and Jupiter. Planetary perturbations and resonances
over the millenia caused those orbits to evolve into earth-crossing
(or in the case of Amors,
Hi Bjorn,
I've been gone on vacation for 5 days so I don't know if your
question below was adequately answered yet, but there is no
discrepancy between the two pictures. As I pointed out last
week in one of my posts, while the trajectory appears to be
parallel to the Kazakhstan/Russian border in
Hi Adam,
Just wanted to wish you and Zann belated congratulations on
your tetra-dodeca nuptials! Did you time your I dos to
occur at 12:12:12 pm? ;-) Sorry I'll miss you in Tucson;
best wishes for speedy recoveries for yourself and mother-in-law!
(Afraid there's no need for a flu shot for me
Hi Norm,
I've found it in seismic data. Nothing obvious on radar yet... --Rob
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Hi John,
I'm driving from SoCal as well. Saves the hassle and expense of
flying (which limits what I can bring) and then having to rent a
car. Also, unlike a rental car, with my own vehicle I can go
off-road if I want, which is handy if you plan to do a little
space-rock hunting along the way!
In the words of Steven Wright, I intend to live forever. So far
so good.
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Hi Ron,
I would certainly rank Curiosity well above the likes of Bashar Assad,
Kim Jong-I-haven't-don't-anything-yet-Un, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Barack
Obama, Joe Biden, Karl Rove (you've got to be kidding), Michael (Nanny)
Bloomberg, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Roger Goodell, Pussy Riot,
Airship = publicity
I don't think taxpayers are on the hook for any measureable amount of
revenue spent on that joy trip. Is it scientifically useful?
Absolutely
not. Is it cool to get to fly around in an airship? Sure -- it's
fabulous! (I've had the pleasure of doing so in a LEGITIMATE work
Hi All,
Haven't seen anyone mention it, but I was impressed that Brien's slice
of
Novato sold for over $185 a gram on eBay over the weekend. Perhaps that
precedent will get more of the locals interested in searching their
yards!
--Rob
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From the reports I've read of the magnetic attraction, it's too
responsive to be an achondrite. And it looks like an equilibrated
O.C. to me. --R
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Take heart that the gentleman interviewed is under the impression
that a search near Martinez will be fruitful. In other words, there's
no danger of him crossing paths with knowledgeable meteorite hunters
who will be searching where fragments, er fragnaments, actually fell.
;-) --Rob
Hi Jim/List,
Preaching to the choir on *this* list, but the meteor last night
*obviously* had nothing to do with the Orionids. Wrong time, wrong
direction, wrong speed, wrong size. As we all know, the Orionids
are associated with Comet Halley; the Bay Area fireball was from
a meteoroid. --Rob
Hi Ron/List,
Given the length of the current arc (270 days), and the consistency of
the
photometry over that time, I will go out on a limb and say that this
will
almost certainly become the brightest comet that has ever been seen --
by
a significant margin -- by most people alive today.
What's
are not known. --Rob
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:02 AM
To: Ron Baalke; Meteorite Mailing List; Matson, Robert D.
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Big Sun-diving Comet Discovered: Comet C/2012
S1
Hi All,
Been a little slow to report this to the Meteorite List -- got a little
side-tracked with comet C/2012 S1, and was waiting to do a little more
analysis to confirm the solution.
Let me start with the analysis result, since it's pretty exciting:
the UK bolide of 21 September 2012 was an
Hi Martin,
Given the east-to-west direction, space junk is extremely unlikely.
(Very few manmade objects in such retrograde orbits.)
Unfortunately, from your description it sounds like it most likely
ended up going over Southport into the Irish Sea southeast of the
Isle of Man. Your location is
Anyone catch Endeavour flying over Tucson today? The 747 was to
take off from El Paso around 11 am MDT, do a low-level flyover
of White Sands Missile Range and be in the Tucson area around
12:15pm MDT (about an hour ago). --Rob
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Hi All,
I would concur with Doug Ross's and Mike Miller's take on the meteorite
coordinate publication problem, and would opine that the least-offending
solution is to embargo coordinates for some period of time to respect
the
efforts of hard-working meteorite hunters while still satisfying the
Hi All,
Did anything ever come of the Saskatchewan fall on 2/21/2012? Last
I heard, Don Hurkot had purchased the only stone that was supposedly
from that fall (found by a trucker) and was having it analyzed by
a lab in Saskatoon. Since then -- not a peep. Certainly the pictures
of the find
Hi Mike/Shawn/List,
Following Shawn's post, I looked at the video and came to the same
conclusion -- way too fast to be a space object, and very unlikely
to be visible *through* the clouds in any case. Despite that, I
~did~ check Denver and Cheyenne radars to see if anything showed
up. Lots of
Hi Marc,
Just a quick comment on your recent post about the Whitmire, SC, fall on
February 13th earlier this year. You posted:
For one, this event slipped through the cracks before Galactic
Analytics
LLC was formed. Now that this work is underway as a subscription-based
effort, it allows us
Hi Marc/List,
Additional reports have been posted to the AMS site, as well as various
Canadian UFO websites on the July 14th fall over southeastern Alberta,
Canada. I estimate the fall location is east-southeast of Lake Newell
and west-northwest of Medicine Hat in the vicinity of Suffield,
Hi All,
A bright meteor was recorded on an All-Sky camera in south Calgary
around 00:32:15 MDT on 14 July 2012. Location appears to be east of
the camera location, heading south. (Could be heading southeast,
south, or southwest -- would need a second camera view to triangulate.)
Currently 7
In addition to the 7 reports on the AMS website, here is a report
from Lake Newell, Alberta, for this fireball:
I was fishing at Lake Newell Friday night, at about 12:30, suddenly
something light up the lake and I saw an object flying pass the lake
in 2 seconds without any sound, I thought the
Possible bolide over San Diego County?
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jun/29/did-you-hear-big-boom-coast/?sciquestpage=2#article
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For all those irons you want to try etching:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jun/22/spill-closes-portion-i-15-ne
ar-primm-california-hi/
--Rob
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Talk about a coincidence -- not 10 seconds before I got your email, I
found that
auction on eBay! --Rob
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Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 11:10
Hi All,
Using Google Streetview, I was able to determine that the video was
taken from northbound highway 131 just before exit 84A (Wealthy St.)
heading toward Grand Rapids. Approximate coordinates of 42.95343N,
85.67195W. Since the driver is heading NNE, the meteor was far to
the northeast on a
Hi Brien,
All the abstracts for the 2012 MetSoc meeting were due last week, so
Petrus has had his hands full with those and likely has had little
or no time to update the find list on the consortium page. Also,
there is the possibility that some of the most recent finds have
not even been
Hi Richard,
I suspect Marc would say much the same as I am: that so far, the
witness reports are completely unactionable. There is little
consensus on even the time of the event, and absolutely no
information about which direction each observer saw it. About
all that can be said is that a meteor
Hi Mike,
New finds are few and far between.
This is mostly because there are so few people searching right now,
and to a lesser extent that the easiest spots have been covered
fairly well. Despite it being hunted to death, there are still
plenty of meteorites in Marshall Gold Discovery State
Hi Greg,
Wow - that classification was fast, exactly one month. I guess now it
needs to be compared to the other C's and if there are three alike,
perhaps a brand new C-chondrite group.
Don't read too much into the simple C classification. This is very
preliminary, and the classification
Hi All,
Noticed that the find date on Peter's website is incorrect for Robert Ward's
SM35 find -- should be May 1st rather than May 4th. --Rob
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Hi Martin,
I've actually been aboard a zeppelin just like this one while using it for
radar phenomenology studies in southern California about a decade ago. It's
a very cool ride, and certainly among the more unique modes of transportation
that you can take! --Rob
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Hi All,
Surely this line from the story in the Sacramento Bee cannot be right
(or at the very least it is misleading):
The team will use cameras and binoculars to look for burn patches on
the ground, then direct ground crews to those locations to hunt for
meteorite particles. The search is
Hi All,
As I wrote off-list (and others have mentioned) the ground cover is
seasonal, so it's important to have current information in order to
scope out the best areas that can be searched most efficiently. Time
is their enemy in terms of terrestrialization/rain, so I know Peter
wants to recover
NOT. Too big for it to have been found where the founder
said he/she found it. --Rob
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Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 7:49 PM
To:
Hi George,
Roughly east to west, based on the combination of radar returns and the
angle of the trajectory as seen in Lisa Warren's images. Additional
refinement needs to be done to determine whether the flight bearing
was toward slightly north of west or slightly south of west. (The
radar data
Hi All,
A friend just gave me a copy of the front page section of Monday's
Los Angeles Times. The Sutter's Mill fall made the front page --
above the fold, no less! In fact, Jason Utas appears (along with
Doug Klotz and Paul Guttmann) in a big color image at the top of
the front page! (Jason is
Hi Paul,
Probably not a misquote -- Dr. Jenniskens is interested in deciphering
the
nature of the original asteroid (meteoroid) body that produced the
meteorites. The original body was large enough that it may not have been
a monolithic body; as with 2008 TC3 (Almahata Sitta), the pre-encounter
Excellent news! Looks promising that a trail can be traced back to the
original thief or thieves... --Rob
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Hi Paul,
Does Lisa Warren work for NASA? I had just assumed she was a private
individual who happened to be in the right place at the right time with
a camera and very good reflexes. The link below implies that NASA is
taking at least partial credit for her images, which is why I ask if
she's a
Hi Paul,
That's what I suspected. So I wonder whether it was MSNBC or NASA that
tried
to hijack some NASA credit for the photo? It's a terrific, rare, and
very
important series of pictures, and I just feel that Lisa deserves every
bit
of credit for capturing them. --Rob
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Hi Greg,
No, can't be tied to Comet Thatcher, unfortunately. The meteoroid came
from a direction less than 30 degrees elongation from the sun. The Lyrid
radiant was in a very different part of the sky at the time of the
fall.
Cheers,
Rob
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Hi Richard,
There's a spelling error in your link -- should be:
http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full.php
That said, the fall location was not near Mariposa, and since the
infrasound
coordinates were based on only two ground sites, I wouldn't place too
much
confidence in the solution. A minimum
Hi Stuart,
Less than 30 degrees elongation from the sun -- not an area of the
sky that surveys are looking... --Rob
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Hi Jim,
Don't know if you saw Marco Langbroek's post a while back commenting
on the video shown during that newscast. That is NOT a fireball. It
is a jet and its contrail. And as Marco pointed out, it is
embarrassingly
obvious that it is a jet. Makes me sad for our country. It's really no
Hi Paul/List,
I wonder what took Harvard so long to reach this conclusion?
I didn't even need to see the images of the meteorite:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2012-March/083761.html
;-) --R
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Hi All,
Most of you probably haven't heard about this yet, so I thought I'd
give you a heads up that the brightest sungrazing comet since Comet
Lovejoy last year will soon be entering the SOHO LASCO C3 field of
view. It was discovered in SWAN images last week by Vladimir Bezugly,
and confirmed by
Hi Paul,
Looks like much easier ground to search than the two falls in
North Carolina and South Carolina! What a great potential name
for a meteorite fall: Rockhaven. ;-) Congrats to Alan Hildebrand
for nailing the prediction of the fall location. It looks like
Buzzard Coulee all over again...
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 21 February 2012 Rockhaven fall
Rob what is the two falls you
Hi All,
I'm finding conflicting information about Kevin Palivec's camera
location.
This site says he's in Hawley, TX:
http://allsky.ca/NAdatabase.html
But THIS site says he's in Coleman, TX:
http://elpasoallsky.blogspot.com/
Which is correct? If the camera is in Coleman, a fall location as
, Robert D.; Meteorite List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Conflicting info for location of
mostimportant TXfireball camera
Kevin IS Hawley, TX.
http://allsky.ca/NAdatabase.html#notes
Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secretary,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
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, February 06, 2012 4:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Conflicting info for location of
mostimportant TXfireball camera
Kevin IS Hawley, TX.
http://allsky.ca/NAdatabase.html#notes
Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secretary,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society
Hi Yinan/Bob/List,
Great video! My guess is that the police car was pointed to the NNE
(one of the common directions that roads face in that area near
Temple, TX), and thus the bolide flight direction is in agreement
with the all-sky camera videos from Oklahoma City and eastern New
Mexico. The
Hi Mike,
Revelstoke is a famous fall that occurred a long time ago (and the tiny
meteorite fragments were recovered not long after the fall). Not sure
why it's appearing in the latest Bulletin since it was in Meteoritical
Bulletin #34 back in 1965. Perhaps there is updated information on
the fall
Wow! It must have taken a handsome chunk of change to acquire this piece
-- I
should think a couple digits followed by four zeroes!
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Hopefully less than a Bugatti Veyron! :-)
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Tissint Martian Meteorite, oriented mass
Note the recycled image of the Concorde contrail at sunset as
photographed from Wales. This non-fireball image seems to get
endlessly recycled as THE quintessential fireball... Ugh.
--Rob
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Hi Pete,
That small speck is actually a second comet (a fragment of Comet
Lovejoy)
that had to have separated at least several days ago. (And actually, as
Kreutz comets go, it's a pretty bright one!) Of course, *all* Kreutz-
amily comets are pieces of one giant original comet that has fragmented
: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:18 PM
To: Matson, Robert D.; Meteorite Mailing List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Link to Comet Lovejoy movie
Thanks for that clip. It's much better than
the others I've found on various websites.
It gives one a sense of what poor old Lovejoy
is heading into!
Yes
Hi All,
I've created an 81-frame movie of Comet Lovejoy approaching the
sun as seen by STEREO B. Zipped, the avi file is about 7 meg,
but if anyone wants to check it out I can e-mail it to them.
It shows nice detail in the tail (which ~still~ extends beyond
the field of view of the camera!).
Hi All,
Jim Wooddell has kindly offered to host my movie of Comet Lovejoy
entering STEREO B. You can download the video at one of the
following links:
ZIP file of AVI:
https://k7wfr.us/RobertMatson/Lovejoy_StereoB.zip
Unzipped AVI file:
https://k7wfr.us/RobertMatson/Lovejoy_StereoB.avi
Thanks
to the sun, coupled with the comet's parabolic orbit coming
up from the south. --Rob
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From: Jim Wooddell [mailto:nf11...@npgcable.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 4:57 PM
To: Matson, Robert D.; Meteorite Mailing List
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Link to Comet Lovejoy
Hi Phil,
It was my understanding that the mystery of the CERN faster-than-
light-speed neutrino result was solved over a month ago: failure
to account for the relativistic motion of the GPS clocks used to
time the neutrinos.
GPS satellites orbit in planes inclined 55 degrees relative to
the
Hi Jeff,
Double bonus: 7 meteorites, including Sierra County, use all of the
letters A-E-I-O-U-Y. All are in the United States except for one.
Name it.
I thought of one of U.S. ones right away, only because I found several
of them: Superior Valley xxx ;-) --Rob
P.S. Probably the highest
If anyone wants the North Platte, Nebraska, radar data for the time in
question, you can download it from this link:
http://ftp3.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/has/HAS002324615/
Don't see anything obvious in it. Checking Hastings, NE data next... --Rob
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