At the risk of showing my igornace (vast), couldn't the photo be subjected to some type of spectrum analysis. Wouldn't a picture of a contrail lighted by the setting sun show a different spectrum than an exploding meteor? Can that be taken from a digital photo? Fly Hill
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:45 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Photo of Fiery Object Over UK Mystifies Scientists > > > http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_031013.html > > Photo of Fiery Object Mystifies Scientists > By Robert Roy Britt > space.com > 13 October 2003 > > A digital picture of a spectacular and apparently explosive event in the sky > fooled a pair of seasoned NASA scientists, has other researchers around the > globe mystified, and made a minor celebrity of a teenage photographer. > > Jonathan Burnett, 15, was photographing his friends skateboarding in > Pencoed, Wales when one of them noticed a colorful fireball in the sky. > Burnett snapped a picture, then sent it to NASA scientists and asked if they > knew what it was. > > Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell, who run NASA's Astronomy Picture of the > Day (APOD), posted the photograph on Oct. 1 and wrote that "a sofa-sized > rock came hurtling into the nearby atmosphere of planet Earth and > disintegrated." They called the picture "one of the more spectacular meteor > images yet recorded." > > Problem is, it turns out, there was no meteor. > > Rampant speculation > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
