Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-04-01 Thread rocks
through a debris field. You make some very good points, and I will have to give this some thought. The all sky survey data you mention is very interesting! --Noah - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs Fr

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Peterson
Meteorites USA" To: ; Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:32 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded Doesn't one large asteroid (miles across) have multiple types of meteoritic material? Iron at the core, silicate and iron mix surrounding that, chondritic materi

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Meteorites USA
d falls get overlooked. If this Georgia fireball had happened a few years ago, would it have gotten this much attention on the list? All the best- --Noah - Original Message - From: "Meteorites USA" To: Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:22 AM Subject: [meteorite-list]

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Meteorite-Recon.com
---Original Message- >From: meteorh...@aol.com >Sent: Mar 30, 2009 12:32 PM >To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded > >Hello List, > >Here is my take on the recent falls in North America. While there actually

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Meteorites USA
Steve, The increased news coverage of Buzzard Coullee and other falls is probably one reason that there's been more reports of fireballs recently. Then the one in Sudan which I forgot to mention which was a first in the history of man. More people are looking to the skies, so awareness seems

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Fries, Marc D
I can quit worrying about getting thwacked by Uranus, then. phew On 3/30/09 9:42 AM, "Greg Redfern" wrote: > The VA-MD sighting is now being classified as the spent Russian Expedition 19 > booster: http://wtop.com/?nid=25=1636442 > . > > All the best, >

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Greg Redfern
: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded > >Hello List, > >Here is my take on the recent falls in North America. While there actually >may be more now, as it seems like we had a long drought since Park Forest, I >am wandering if much of this can be traced back

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Gren
-list@meteoritecentral.com Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded Hello Eric, four days ago I tried to post the following text to the list but obviously it didn't get through: Estimated list-members, sorry, in German only, but interesting regarding the question whether the

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread MeteorHntr
Hello List, Here is my take on the recent falls in North America. While there actually may be more now, as it seems like we had a long drought since Park Forest, I am wandering if much of this can be traced back to Buzzard Coulee. The Canadian event gained strong media attention shortly af

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread rocks
ot;Meteorites USA" To: Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:22 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded Over the past few months or so I've been tracking many fireball sightings and suspected new falls all over the world. Recently we've had no fewer than 4 righ

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread rocks
ot;Meteorites USA" To: Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:22 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded Over the past few months or so I've been tracking many fireball sightings and suspected new falls all over the world. Recently we've had no fewer than 4 righ

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Seidel
> Isn't this abnormally high meteor activity? Is our planet traveling > through a large field of asteroidal space debris right now? How can some > many fireballs and meteorite falls happen in such a short period of time > unless this were the case? Random statistics over a longer timescale does

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Matthias Bärmann
early nothing seems to be done in Europe to reenforce programms for monitoring the asteroidical traffic around earth. Best regards, Matthias - Original Message - From: "Meteorites USA" To: Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 5:22 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: B

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread GeoZay
Eric>>Isn't this abnormally high meteor activity?<< geozay>>It doesn't seem so to me. << Let me add something I just found in IMO's (International Meteor Organization)Visual Handbook, Chapter 5.2 under Fireballs: " Then, there is a seasonal variation: around the time of the vernal equino

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread GeoZay
>>Isn't this abnormally high meteor activity?<< It doesn't seem so to me. geozay **Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood0001) __ http://www.meteori

[meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

2009-03-30 Thread Meteorites USA
Over the past few months or so I've been tracking many fireball sightings and suspected new falls all over the world. Recently we've had no fewer than 4 right here in the United States. Not to mention the Denmark fall, Tamdaught, West, Westchester, Augusta, Sacramento, and the Merced Fireball.