>>>>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. <<<< C'mon.... did you really see that happen?? :p Warren Sansoucie I.M.C.A. #3174 St. Louis MO
---------------------------------------- > Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:15:14 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Don t skip looking at this! > > 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" >>To: ; >>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 >>>> 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 > ______________________________________________ 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
