Bernd wrote:
"He was not yet asleep when he experienced the bright light illuminating his
bedroom and the tremendous explosions that followed. A *couple minutes* later
he heard a disturbance outside, he said it sounded like something hit his
house."
In view of the tremendous fireball and the accompanying sound phenomena
witnessed by various people here in Europe (especially Switzerland, Southern
Germany and Eastern France) ... was it really "a couple minutes later" or was
it "a couple seconds later"?
I would think it would be longer than that. If we have retardation at
100,000 feet, the sound would take about 90 seconds to reach the ground
and the meteorites at a terminal velocity of, say, 200 mph, would take 5
minutes, so the difference might be on the order of 3.5 minutes. I'm
sure someone will chime in with more exact figures.
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