Hello Al and list, If the meteor did extinguish below 7000 feet as my observation and the NWS data suggest (fireball seen below the cloud deck and the NWS stated that the cloud deck base height was 7000 feet at that time), then a very low retardation point would not be out of the question.
Dave Johnson >Hi Mike and all, > >Michael Farmer wrote: > >>>Yes, and is not Chicago called "The Windy City" ? << > >All though it is windy in Chicago from the lake, the term comes from politics as there >are a lot of windy candidates. > >Besides winds perhaps the break up might have had some something to do with fragments >found. There is a retardation point that scientists speak up where an item can almost >come to a stop while falling from the pressure in front. Perhaps we had a very low >point of retardation. > >--AL (not so windy) ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
