Hi Mendy and Bob, Listees;
Yes, the "explosion", which is not an explosion in a chemical sense,
does involve an altering of trajectory, rather than arbitrarily saying
toward the ground, theory goes it is in a direction perpendicular to
the trajectory due to energy of the differential pressure on front vs.
back faces of fragments. But that is thought to be spent in theoretical
cases at about 5-10 times the diameter of the bolide - and the
downfield projection on the ground is the elliptical sectioning which
has the added fractionation of heavier pieces having more momentum to
carry further forward..
So in actuality the explosion might better be termed a "flowering".
The so called kiloton "energy" widely quoted, has huge assumptions
since each case is unique depending on the conditions of the meteoroid,
but I think it is generally just some clever guess at how a pressure
wave relates to size and how to estimate all of the 0.5mv^2 kinetic
energy of the meteoroid projectile, which I doubt instruments can
detect as an integrate whole, just a wild order of magnitude, and
rather have to make assumptions how quickly the bolide-bud flowers.
Just a guess, so hopefully someone who does can explain more. But
based on this theory, no provisions are for more than a symmetrical
statistical distribution of fragments that I know. Your question in a
practical sense would be, is everything so uniform, or might a few
outlying pieces get a disproportionate amout of energy to be sent out.
I don't see why not.
kindest wishes
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Verish <bolidecha...@yahoo.com>
To: Mendy Ouzillou <ouzil...@yahoo.com>
Cc: Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 11:47 am
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at
the time of breakup
Strewn field workers have an arkane phrase for this phenomenon called,
"blow-back", which is used to explain anomalies such as reverse
size-grading, or
exceptionally large fragments at the very "fine-end" of an otherwise
well
size-graded strewn-field.
Bob V.
--- On Mon, 4/30/12, Mendy Ouzillou <ouzil...@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Mendy Ouzillou <ouzil...@yahoo.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the
time of
breakup
To: "'meteoritelist meteoritelist'"
<meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 8:21 AM
I was curious to know if the primary
bolide breakup event was explosive or
"simple" fragmentation?
By explosive I mean at the time of the breakup, energy is
converted somehow
that causes some pieces to alter their trajectory and
"shoot" down to the
ground instead of following a normal parabolic trajectory.
Thanks,
Mendy
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