I think that a person took a famous photo of the Pasamonte fireball as it was happening with a camera. According to him, and Nininger who reported it, it corkscrewed in flight.
Steve Schoner/AMS --- Marco Langbroek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be carefull here. The dusttrails and/or persistent > trains left by meteorites > will start to twist after formation due to high > altitude winds, often > creating a cork-screw pattern in the dust-trail or > persistent train. I've > seen it happen many times with persistent trains of > fireballs. It sometimes > happens in seconds. This is not due to the meteorite > itself cork-screwing > down, but it might lure an eye-witness in thinking > it was. > > This is not to say that I want to discount the > possibility some do, but it > is a fact, I have never seen any good photograph of > a bright meteor > corkscrewing, other than a few where the effect was > instrumental (introduced > by camera-movements), or likely to be so. > > - Marco > > ---------- > Drs Marco Langbroek > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek > > "What seest thou else > In the dark backward and abysm of time?" > > William Shakespeare > The Tempest act I scene > 2 > ---------- > > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
