I believe I've run to ground the space debris/ satellite collision/ Fireball confusion but see no way to get it back into Pandora's Box. What happens on the Internet stays in the Internet!
A Notice to AIRMEM(NOTAM) was issued for the expected re-entry of an ISS resupply rocket booster over Alberta Canada for approx 3-3:15 PM Friday 13 Feb. NOTAMS are national/international for aircraft flying into the affected region. This booster was on time but skipped back and finally reentered over the South Atlantic off the West coast of Africa 15 min later. The NOTAM did not immediately expire I forget how long NOTAMs remain in effect. A reporter called the FAA who called the National Weather Service or vice versa regarding a fireball over Kentucky and some mal-informed representative sees the Alberta NOTAM all the while reports of a satellite collision are still creeping across the CNN screen and connects the wrong two plus two. It is picked up by the news wire and suddenly the sky is falling everywhere as parts of the Iridium and Kosmos suddenly start dropping straight down from orbit Wiley Coyote/Hollywood style--Oh yeah and starting barn fires in Lily Kentucky which never stop burning and can't be extinguished. DUH! Back to a general note: we are seeing weekly and monthly spaced major fireballs including large meteorite falls. Statistics tell me that we are only sampling a portion of a much larger asteroidal debris field in crossing earth orbit. Is anyone aware of a more formal study accessing a distant collision in the asteroid belt that has sent a fresh supply of material our way? I surmised a few years ago that Feb also seemed to have a cluster of falls toward the end of the month. Has anyone on the list looked at the fall log or fireball log at Amsmeteors.org for any recurring clusters? Be back later, I am finishing my Kevlar titanium umbrella hard hat. Elton --- On Sun, 2/15/09, Dark Matter <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dark Matter <[email protected]> > Subject: [meteorite-list] looks promising...for something > To: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, February 15, 2009, 9:44 PM > Texans report fireball in sky, sonic booms > > -Video shot in Austin, Texas, shows meteor-like object in > sky Sunday morning > -Fireball sightings, reports of sonic booms come days after > satellite > collision in space > -FAA told U.S. pilots to watch for "falling space > debris" > -No reports of ground strikes or interference with > aircraft, FAA spokesman says > > (CNN) -- Sonic booms and at least one fireball in the sky > were > reported in Texas on Sunday, less than a week after two > satellites > collided in space and a day after the Federal Aviation > Administration > asked U.S. pilots to watch for "falling space > debris," authorities > said. > > http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/15/texas.sky.debris/index.html > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
