> > ... I'm curious why there was no supersonic boom mentioned > by the observers.Was the plane too high??
They could have been too far away. You can have sightings of fireballs without hearing the sonic booms. In fact, meteorites have been known to land without anyone having heard a sonic boom. A recent example is the Louisana fall that fell through a house. Sonic booms are only heard when you are relatively close to the fireball, about 50 miles or so. Also, sonic booms may be heard but not recognized, and thus not reported. For example, the Space Shuttle sometimes flies over Los Angeles when it lands. The Shuttle generates a double sonic boom (one for each wing). The first time I heard the Shuttle sonic booms, I wasn't expecting them, and thought it was noise from someone dropping some boxes on the floor above me. Though I heard the sonic booms clearly, they weren't particularly loud, and I had dismissed them until someone mentioned later that the Shuttle had flown overhead. Ron Baalke ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
