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Yes, and is not Chicago called "The Windy City" ?
We are not talking a very far off course. The
smaller stones seem to be less than a quarter to half mile to the east, that is
nothing when something is falling from space. Steger is just on the other side
of the road from Park Forest, not really like out west here where one town is 30
or 40 miles to the next. To me this strewnfield looks absolutely perfect, if not
just a tad scewed like (I think) by the wind.
Mike Farmer
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:40
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD
Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest
The DOD says the fireball went like this
/
The recovery of pieces say they fell like this
\
The overlay then looks like this X or this
^
Mike's high winds could support the ^ overlay
with Olympia Fields being the apex, the largest stones are from that
area.
But those winds would have to be really blowing
to whip ALL the smalls to the other side.
What a nifty deal.
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Rob
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 9:07
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD
Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest
Also, if the fall is SW to NE, and so far we
see most small stones to the south and south east of the large stones, would
this not also be affected by upper level winds? High winds can cause the
smaller stones to drift, meaning that this strewnfield would thus be
perfectly normal.
Yes, strewnfields can be reversed, Portales
Valley was a perfect example, without exception, the largest stones all fell
to the back and the small stones fell later. This is due to low exploding of
the meteorite forcing the larger stones down.
Mike Farmer
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Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:54
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD
Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest
Hi Al,
Yes I saw the the meteorwrongs in his
collection too, it was a bit disappointing, but he did not try very hard
to convince me that they were meteorites when I told him they were slag. I
asked if he was including them in his data and he said no. Is that really
true? I don't know.
He did have some nice individuals and fragments
however, and claimed his strewn field info came from real meteorites,some
gathered by people whose names I recognized.Some of the coordinates
included a bunch that were sold by the local Postmaster, who supposedly
got most of his stones from another man I met out there that was a local,
and rather proficient at finding the stones in the opening days of the
fall.
Even though Atul may not be completely reliable, the fact remains
that the larger stones are N.W. of the smaller ones, contradicting the
Satellite info.... unless of course there is such a thing as a reverse
fall! Adam, I never heard of that, is this like the April fools joke
about Venus? Please elaborate on this, I would like to know what falls
have a reverse distribution of material, that seems to defy the rules!
Mass and velocity, blah blah... you know, that physics stuff How can it
possibly be
backward?
Larry
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