Good call George. The trail has been tentatively linked to a Russian ICBM-class missile launched from southeast Russia. I don't remember if this was a reliability test or a scientific package. A commentator elsewhere suggested this was spewing fuel from a tumbling booster. The pattern is similar to other trails where high level winds aloft are disbursing the exhaust unevenly. I believe we have a photo(s) of a meteor trail which shows an apparent zig-zaging pattern.
To the ground observer, it may look like a constant altitude but the trail is being laid down as the rocket is passing through several flight levels where winds can be moving laterally at different speeds but in an overall general direction. Elton ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
