All you (hopefully: lucky) hunters might also have to factor this into your calculations and hunting preparations:
During its luminous phase which lasted over 40 seconds, the Peekskill meteoroid covered a ground path of some 700 to 800 km according to Brown et al. (1994). Aerodynamic drag caused a greater than 20 km longitudinal displacement of the fragments and the transverse displacement was about 1km for some of the smaller fragments. Video Observations of the Peekskill Meteorite Fireball: Atmospheric Trajectory and Orbit (Meteoritics 29-4, 1994, p. 455): The dark flight of the recovered meteorite started from a height of 30 km, when the velocity dropped below 3 km/s, and the body continued an additional horizontal distance of 50 km without ablation, until it hit a parked car in Peekskill, New York, with a vertical velocity of about 80 m/s. Good luck! Bernd ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
