The distribution from Olympia Fields/Park Forest to Steger/Beecher would argue that the flight path was NW to SE or vice versa. The larger masses in the Olympia Fields area would support the former. If they are correct I was searching the wrong side of every building. Please enlighten, -- Rob Wesel ------------------ We are the music makers...and we are the dreamers of the dreams. Willy Wonka, 1971
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:17 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest > > http://phobos.astro.uwo.ca/~pbrown/usaf/dod231.txt > > Fireball Detection > Department of Defense Announcement > (courtesy of Peter Brown) > July 7, 2003 > > IR sensors aboard US DOD satellites detected the impact of a bolide over > Park Forest, Illinois, on 27 March 2003 at 05:50:26 UTC. The object > traveled from the SW to the NE on a heading of 22.3 degrees, with a > flight path angle of 62.3 degrees from the local horizontal. > The straight line intersection of the flight path with the ground was at > 41.56 North latitude, 87.67 West longitude. It was possible to derive a > velocity for the object of 20 +/- 1 km/sec. The impact was simultaneously > detected by space based visible wavelength sensors operated by the US > Department of Energy. From these sensors the total radiated energy was > estimated at 1.4 X 10^11 joules. > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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
