Could nt it be like a solar pool game where one piece for some reason is impacted from behind changing its direction? I saw this happen in a fall that landed near Denver a few yeas back. As the meteorite entered the upper atmosphere it broke into 3 pieces at first they seperated in a line but when the forward most piece hit the more solid air is slowed rapidly leaving a wake of thinner air behind it. This caused the second piece to catch up to the first and impact with it knocking it down. When the third piece caught up with the second it glanced off at about a 60 degree angle upward and went back into space. The 2nd piece also continued on in space. Only the first piece fell to earth. It was an awesome sight to see. Wish a piece of it was found! By my best figures it landed somewhere about 18 miles northwest of Denver near a lake. Plus or minus 3 miles. Thats a lot of rough ground to search.
On Mon May 24th, 2010 10:05 PM EDT Jeff Kuyken wrote: >Thanks for sharing that Darren. I took a look at the main image. There are >many such 'moving boulders' visible across it with many much longer than the >one mentioned in the blog. Some are even large arcs. Fascinating stuff. > >http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M122597190LE > >Cheers, > >Jeff > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "MEM" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:59 AM >Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Don't skip looking at this! > > >> I had the opportunity to discuss this with Apollo 16 Astronaut Charlie >> Dukes, once upon a time: finding a "meteorite" trail on the lunar surface >> with a prize at rest at the end of the track. He said they saw some dashed >> tracks clearly indicating something had skipped along the ground. There were >> tracks but, they did not see what made them. >> >> Before I better understood the big picture dynamics, I had wondered if an >> extremely low-angle, "glancing" encounter might allow a meteorite to brush >> the ground and go bouncing down the "fairway" a la Al Shepard(Apollo 14). >> And if so would there be a track to follow. We know now it is pretty much >> impossible for that scenario but seems we have good photographic evidence >> what types of lunar objects can. >> >> Skipping back to you DG... >> Elton >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >>> From: Darren Garrison <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Sent: Mon, May 24, 2010 12:37:34 PM >>> Subject: [meteorite-list] Don't skip looking at this! >>> >>> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/24/lunar-boulder-hits-a-hole-in-one/ >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> > >______________________________________________ >Visit the Archives at >http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >Meteorite-list mailing list >[email protected] >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
