Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-08 Thread E.P. Grondine
. - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28 Comet Tempel-Tuttle, the parent body of the Leonids, is in a low

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-08 Thread Chris Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Cc: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28 Hi, All, Chris said: I don't know if anybody has worked out the likelihood

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-08 Thread E.P. Grondine
Hi all - --- Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even very rare high speed meteoroids should follow a power law size distribution, so a pebble should be much more common than a boulder I think that meteorids as currently defined includes both comet bits and asteroid bits. If that is

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-08 Thread E.P. Grondine
@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28 Hi, Visual, Chris, List For the benefit of Listees following the question of how slow a meteoroid can be... The orbital velocity for any body is maximally

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-08 Thread Sterling K. Webb
@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28 Hi all - I just wrote a book on man and impact. It's called Man and Impact in the Americas, and it's available through amazon. I'm tired now, so I'll keep this short

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread VisualThinker7
In a message dated 12/7/2006 12:02:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Reentering space junk is slow, and is usually reported as green. Chris I'm guessing that 'space junk' is slower because it was in orbit, and as the orbit decayed it entered the atmosphere as a

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Peterson
PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28 I'm guessing that 'space junk' is slower because it was in orbit, and as the orbit decayed it entered the atmosphere as a shallow

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
, December 07, 2006 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28 Objects in orbit around the Earth reenter close to Earth's escape velocity, which sets the lower limit for anything entering our atmosphere (the upper limit is set by the escape velocity of the Sun

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28

2006-12-07 Thread Sterling K. Webb
. - Original Message - From: Chris Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 36, Issue 28 Comet Tempel-Tuttle, the parent body of the Leonids