Hi Jay and List,
> I was looking through my planetary geology
textbook and came across thiss:
>
"In 1996 a meteor was observed to skip off our atmosphere, and
slightly less
> then one orbit later it re-entered the
atmosphere and landed in southern
> california."
This
information is now a bit out of date. It was later determined (by Sandia?)
that
these
were two distinct meteoroids. Neither the bolide observed over
Arizona/
New
Mexico, nor the one seen from southern California produced a
recovered
meteorite. When the two events were thought to be
the same object, the
inferred trajectory placed the probable reentry point
to the northeast of Little
Lake
(just off I-395, south of Lone Pine), and likely within the China
Lake
military area. However, once the California
event is disassociated from the
earlier AZ/NM earth-grazer, knowledge of the CA
trajectory is inadequate for
potential recovery purposes.
Best,
Rob
