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Rob Wesel
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:17
PM
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
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:01
PM
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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