Hi Elton: How many fireballs, etc. have been seen recently? I know there have been a bunch, but would like to know how many there have been if anyone is keeping a tally.
We have our regular "asteroid lunch" here in Tucson today and this would make an interesting topic for our group. Thanks Larry On Sun, February 15, 2009 8:45 pm, Mr EMan wrote: > > > 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 > > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
