Re: [meteorite-list] re: Bootids (Quadrantids) meteor shower and 2003 EH1

[MexicoDoug]

Hi Bill, I have no idea why my e-mail posting turned into digital dribble (it is the second time that happened), so I am reposting this reply I made to you below the way it appears in my "outbox", and I hope it is now more intelligible.  It was not meant as a joke, my internet connection is not via a land line so every once in a while this sort of thing happens.
Saludos.  Doug Dawn
Mexico


Asunto: Re: [meteorite-list] re: Bootids (Quadrantids) meteor shower and 2003 EH1�
Fecha: 12/23/2003 6:08:30 AM Mexico Standard Time
De: MexicoDoug
Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

In a message dated 12/23/2003 6:28:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Doug,
>
> How about a synopsis? Or is it synapses? I can't follow all
> that.
>
> Bill Kieskowski

OK Bill, trying:...I noticed that Ron Baalke somehow overlooked posting a recent research result that the Quadrantid Meteor shower, which was the final major orphan shower (no parent body identified that is source to the material), now has a parent, with good probability.� They also suggested that the parent got too close to Jupiter over the last few centuries in its orbit causing a considerable part to disintegrate, or perhaps fragment.� The orbit of the parent body was calculated and I looked at 138 years of approaches of the object (2003 EH1) to Earth, and noticed that in 1877 several coincidental factors lined up, so I checked Impactika.com 's website for falls, and on Jan 3, 1877 there was one, St. Marks (South Africa).� Then miraculously, listmember Marco Langbroek from the Netherlands, one of the researchers on this discovery stepped in to answer all my questions eventually telling me it was a good try, but wishful thinking on my part that that particular fall was from 2003 EH1, considered to be a burnt out comet. I didn't accept no until he checked the orientation of the Earth and proved that it was unlikely, since the part of Earth flying through the Meteor stream orbit left by 2003 EH1 did not include the fall location at the fall time.� The he drew a picture to better appreciate this.� So now there are more questions, but we won't be spending time on the St Marks meteorite question since it seems far too improbably.� In other words, close but no cigar...so unfortunately we don't have a sample of an EH5 burnt out comet in St. Marks S. Africa meteorite, and it will not be worth a million times its present value...hope that helps.� Now it is really bedtime or I'll be seeing stars in daylight.

Saludos Doug