Re: [meteorite-list] From the strewnfield of the newest meteorite fall..........
Hi Rob You are correct about the Montrose fireball. It fragmented very high above the city of Montrose. I have included the text from Chris Peterson's website www.cloudbait.com below. He explains it much better than I could. The fireball began about 25 miles southeast of Montrose at a height of 75 miles, and descended steeply towards the town (47° from the vertical), exploding at a height of 48 miles directly over the southeast corner. This event was captured by the allsky camera at Montrose High School (the orange dot labeled "MHS" is seen very close to the end of the meteor path). From the view of this camera (video, 87K ), the meteor is seen to start high in the sky and rise nearly overhead before exploding, with the final material disappearing behind the camera. This fireball exploded unusually high. Normally, meteoroids are much closer to the ground before the stress of deceleration in the denser atmosphere causes them to break up. The high altitude suggests that the parent body was particularly fragile, possibly cometary debris or a carbonaceous chondrite. This reduces the possibility that material survived to reach the ground. Nevertheless, after a close examination of the decay following the terminal explosion, I think there remains a good possibility that meteorites were formed. Although the path makes it appear that debris would fall over Montrose, the altitude of the breakup combined with high altitude winds that evening make it likely any strewn field produced would actually lie about 12 miles to the northeast, between Montrose and Crawford. My guess is that due to the high winds aloft it flew over Denver 3-4 hours later then again in 24 hours, then againwell you get the "drift". I figure if Mike Farmer and Blaine Reed could not find anything chances are not good that anything will be found. Mike Mike Jensen IMCA 4264Bill Jensen IMCA 2359Jensen Meteorites16730 E Ada PLAurora, CO 80017-3137303-337-4361Web Site: Jensen Meteorites New Book: Meteorites from A to Z __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] From the strewnfield of the newest meteorite fall.............
Hi Mike and List, Back from a week in London -- been catching up on e-mails and saw Mike's message -- presumably about the Montrose, CO bolide. Hopefully the multiple All-Sky camera views have narrowed down the search area to the point where meteorites have a decent chance of being found. The only bit of bad news that I've read is that the break-up altitude was quite high, decreasing chances that anything substantial made it to the ground. Also -- wasn't this bolide early in the morning -- 3am-ish? That also doesn't bode well since it means a high cosmic velocity. --Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 10:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [meteorite-list] From the strewnfield of the newest meteorite fall. Hi everyone, I am writing from the strewnfield of the newest meteorite fall on Earth, aproaching 36 hours old right now. Not many people know about it, but I do, I am here now. I wonder if it will be public soon? It seems that only me and a very small handfull of people know about it even though it is in the USA. I was hunting with several famous meteorite hunters all day today and will be again monday. More info from me when I decide to let the other so-called meteorite hunters in on the secret or it breaks on the list. Anyway, lots of fun from the strewnfields. Mike Farmer Beautiful fireball videos of this one. Please do not call me until I write the list back, I am really busy. this will likely be the only email for a day or two, as you all know, this is a busy time at the beginning of a new fall. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] From the strewnfield of the newest meteorite fall.............
Hi everyone, I am writing from the strewnfield of the newest meteorite fall on Earth, aproaching 36 hours old right now. Not many people know about it, but I do, I am here now. I wonder if it will be public soon? It seems that only me and a very small handfull of people know about it even though it is in the USA. I was hunting with several famous meteorite hunters all day today and will be again monday. More info from me when I decide to let the other so-called meteorite hunters in on the secret or it breaks on the list. Anyway, lots of fun from the strewnfields. Mike Farmer Beautiful fireball videos of this one. Please do not call me until I write the list back, I am really busy. this will likely be the only email for a day or two, as you all know, this is a busy time at the beginning of a new fall. __ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
