Howdy, all
I¹ve examined this event and I don¹t agree that this feature is a debris
cloud. It is visible in radar imagery about 15 minutes prior to the
eyewitness accounts of sonic booms. It is also missing some of the
diagnostic features of a meteorite fall, namely internal turbulence that
fades within minutes of the event, high-altitude signatures, a sequential
appearance due to size sorting of falling debris, and other features in
the various radar data products. This feature moves laterally the whole
time it is visible and appears prior to the event; looks like weather to
me.
There is a feature just NE of Shreveport that is interesting but not
conclusively a meteorite fall. There are turbulence features seen in the
Shreveport radar and reflectivity features seen at long range from the
Fort Polk radar. I¹m not convinced that these features are related
either, but we are talking them over. One feature of this event that
troubles me is that there aren¹t any eyewitness reports on the AMS
reporting page. Even though the area was overcast, an event of this
magnitude should have been visible over a very large area. In the past,
events like this have turned out to be man-made events coming from
something on the ground.
Cheers,
Marc Fries
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:30:54 -0700
From: drtanuki drtan...@yahoo.com
To: meteorite-list meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com, Rob Matson
mojave_meteori...@cox.net, Marc Fries marc.d.fr...@nasa.gov
Subject: [meteorite-list] Debris Cloud Found from Shreveport, LA Boom
Event 13OCT2014
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List,
Debris Cloud Found on Radar from Shreveport, LA Boom Event 13OCT2014
according to the National Weather Service.
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/10/shreveport-louisiana-loud
-boom-meteor.html
Rob and Marc can you take a look and see what the NWS claims they found;
thank you.
Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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