Well,
these geophysical events has not been studied much. One of a few pics I have seen of the ball-lightning can be found from;
http://www.netholist.net/rajatiede/pallosalama.php
taken by Roy Jennings in Yorkshire, UK. Text only in finnish, sorry...;- Also a pic of a hole in a window made by ball-lightning can be found from the same site.
Something about ball-lightning and St.Elmos;
http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html
I think, there are several reasons in science community, this item is not much popular. They are quite rare, they are very fast and they usually don�t left their business-card on the ground...;-
Some groups have tried to make similar phenomenas using the very high-voltage submarine batteries. The results were very interresting, but nothing like this.
I have seen a ball-lighting to hit the antenna of a house, travel out trough the open door, then over 70 meters to a sauna and explose in the owen and blow all the ashes in the air. All this in 2 - 3 seconds.
Think there are two ways to explains this, I�m nuts or these things exists. And I didn�t eat mushrooms...;-
take care,
pekka s
Adam Hupe wrote:
Dear Charles, Rosemary and List,
Dr. Andrei Ol'khovatov from Moscow, Russia weighed in on the Elma incident and came to the same conclusion, a geometeorite was to blame. It is amazing how similar the two events are. The kid with the burnt fingers in Elma and a kid with a burnt face in Iran. Three laboratories weighed in on the Elma incident. Two believe it to be a geophysical event and one believes there is a more earthly explanation. To me it is an unsolved mystery. I stopped commenting in public because there is no way to prove what happened either way and it was causing some grief with a few List members.
All the best,
Adam Hupe The Hupe Collection IMCA 2185
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Viau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Meteorite Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:53 PM Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Iranian Fireball Was Of Geophysical Origin
It very well could be related, and why it was so important to properly document the Elma incident, even though all of the 'experts' gave the principal investigators such grief. This is what science is all about. I would hope that there are some geo-physicists out there that will want to pull some of this material together from those 3 sources and look for similarities. The people who witnessed such events were not stupid, nor were they having any hallucinations.
CharlyV
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosemary Hackney Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:12 PM To: Ron Baalke; Meteorite Mailing List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Iranian Fireball Was Of Geophysical Origin
Is this similar to the Elma incident? Elma intrigues me. It looks like sand or particulate material having been fused. Perhaps was sucked up by a dust devil or other storm wind and electrical discharge in the atmosphere fused it like glass? Anyway.. is this Iranian material considered a geometeorite also?
Rosie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:38 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Iranian Fireball Was Of Geophysical Origin
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