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Hi Mike and List,
I am repeating what I was told by a very informed
source and I agree it doesn't make sense. Since I have only seen three
partial plots that need to be merged I can not see the reversal effect that is
being authored by another List member, maybe he will comment. What I did
notice is three large clusters or concentrations on the plots which I found
very interesting. Now that the direction issue has been solved I wish they
would have reported the retardation altitude.
All the best,
Adam
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:31
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD
Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest
The Portales Valley and Johnstown Strewnfields
were backwards.
I am confused about Park Forest though, the
larger pieces were all in the center to northern part of the strewnfield, if
the firebass came from the southwest to the northeast, would this not make it
perfectly correct?
Mike Farmer
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:17
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD
Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest
Dear List Members,
It looks like some are starting to realize the
secret of the Park Forest strewnfield, it is reversed. I think this
has happened only a couple times in history. I hinted at this in a
June 15th post to the list not wanting to take the element of surprise away
from a person who is authoring a paper on this very subject.
All the best,
Adam
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:01
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD
Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest
Hello Folks,
This whole thing has me a
bit perplexed for several reasons. First, the stone my brother and I
recovered had a distinct angle of entry that I saw and documented, and
passed on to Mr. Sipiera. That trajectory definately indicated that the
offending stone came in from the S.E. and was heading in a N.W. direction.
I determined this before ever being subjected to other theoriesof
direction of entry. I also spoke with eyewitnesses in the days that
followed and all backed up that conclusion.
On a second trip I met with
a man named Atul Kumar, He isn't a scientist but he has been gathering
info on the strewn field for the astronomy club that he is involved with.
He has compiled quite a list/map of stones that were recovered, including
weights and locations of recovery, and his map indicates the same S.E. to
N.W. direction, with the larger stones coming from the N.W. end of the
strewn field.
Of course I can't argue with the DOD satellite
observation, but it sure is contradictory to what I've been thinking all
along! The satellite indicates an entry of exactly the opposite of what
the strewn field maps look like that I have seen, and my own recoveries,
70 gram stone in Steger, 638gram stone in P.F. indicate at the very least
a South to North trajectory, (roughly).
No matter how you slice it,
based on the DOD satellite info, the larger stones should be south of the
small ones, and this is just not the case.
Is human error possible,
between interpretation of the satellite data and publication of said
information?
Curious minds want to know,
Larry
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