Hi All, Here is a link to a pic I took of the launch of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The Delta II rocket pretty much went straight as an arrow, but after a minute or so, the smoke trail made loops from a ground perspective.
http://www.planetwhy.com/odysseyloopdeloop.jpg As you can see in the pic, it would appear that the rocket went spiraling out of control, but it obviously didn't. Cheers, Martin On 6/16/03 7:55 AM, "Steve Schoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
