Hi Anita, Chris, and List, Chris wrote: "...Rarely it may be a true skip in the atmosphere, but more likely it is something to do with the way the object breaks up"
The light path of the Vilna, Canada (L5) meteorite in 1967 is an interesting case in this context. Fortunately, an auroral all-sky camera accurately tracked the fireball which pulsed in intensity, probably because it rotated and after its terminal explosion, there was a shower of red sparks. Only 48 mg + 94 mg were recovered! Another excellent example is the fireball over Jackson Lake, Wyoming, August 10, 1972, when a mass of about 4,000 metrical tons literally skipped over the upper layers of the atmosphere and then bounced back into space. Bernd ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
