Howdy ladies and gents
The meteorite gods are fickle creatures who love to mess with people.
At Battle Mountain they dropped a meteorite fall onto the only mountain in a
sizable swath of gently rolling sage brush and salt flats, forcing everyone to
search on mountainsides populated by rattelsnakes. In Addison, AL they plunked
a meteorite fall with uncanny precision onto a national forest surrounded by
farmlands and pastures (which didn't receive a single meteorite as far as we
can tell). And now they've learned a new trick - drop meteorites into the
middle of thunderstorms to mess up the radar signatures. They did it in
Connecticut earlier this year with a fall that doesn't appear on radar at all.
And now they've done it again with the prominent North Carolina fireball from a
couple of days ago. They're sneaky, these meteorite gods. Luckily Rob Matson
has a sharp eye, and may have found a small meteorite signature in amongst all
the thunderstorm clutter.
http://wp.me/p2AyTK-iV
Galactic Analytics' transition to working with the Planetary Science
Institute continues. Any subscriptions purchased for this and later events will
go to PSI, a non-profit research institution.
Cheers,
The GA/PSI team
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