>And the spot it came down is, either >in fact or in my overactive imagination, less than a mile from >my home.
It is very common for witnesses to report that a fireball has landed very close to them. It turns out it is very difficult to judge the distance of a fireball, and in the vast majority of the cases the distance has been grossly misjudged. In one case, someone thought a meteorite landed nearby, 'just over a that nearby hill', and it later turned out to have landed hundreds of miles away. One key observation to look for is sonic booms. A fireball is travelling at supersonic speed, so if it is close to the observer, the observer will hear sonic booms. If the observer does not hear sonic booms, then that means the fireball is at least 50 miles away. In this particular instance, there were no reports of any sonic booms. Ron Baalke ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
