Thanks Rob, you helped me out a lot. When the meteor first entered the atmosphere, I was hearing a variety of interpretations. The one that puzzled me the most was a report that it had exploded over the town of Snelling...which is about 20 or so miles northeast of Merced, CA. GeoZay
In a message dated 5/2/2012 1:33:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, robert.d.mat...@saic.com writes: 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 suggests slightly north of west, but there could be some sampling bias in those images, and at least one local witness suggested a more ENE to WSW trajectory.) I'm still working on the trajectory and will post an update when I've pinned it down a little better. --Rob ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list