Looks like a holiday on the Ilse of Man then eh?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Rob Matson <[email protected]> wrote: > I went back to Graham's original post and see that the fireball was also > travelling right-to-left as seen from Preston, UK: > >>Reports of massive fireball travelling across the UK just over 1 hour ago... >>Very much like Peekskill....video here...lots of other pictures coming in... >> >>http://twitter.yfrog.com/07l5tkggpuvoluavefdcaztrz >> >>Graham > > This moves the ground track a bit further to the north, crossing more > over the center of the Isle of Man than the southern tip. It's > unfortunate that the meteoroid has already broken up into dozens of > pieces by the time it passes north of Preston -- a lot of those will > have ended up in the sea (though with luck maybe some on the Isle of > Man itself). And yet many pieces seem to maintain a decent fraction > of their cosmic velocity as they continue to the WNW, so they must > be of pretty good size. --Rob > > ______________________________________________ > > 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 ______________________________________________ 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
