Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup

am Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup Strewn field workers have an arkane phrase for this phenomenon called, blow-back, which is used to explain anomalies such as reverse size-grading, or exceptionally large fragments at the very fine-end

[meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup

I was curious to know if the primary bolide breakup event was explosive or simple fragmentation? By explosive I mean at the time of the breakup, energy is converted somehow that causes some pieces to alter their trajectory and shoot down to the ground instead of following a normal parabolic

Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup

ouzil...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Mendy Ouzillou ouzil...@yahoo.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup To: 'meteoritelist meteoritelist' meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Date: Monday, April 30, 2012, 8:21 AM I was curious to know

Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup

: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup Strewn field workers have an arkane phrase for this phenomenon called, blow-back, which is used to explain anomalies such as reverse size-grading, or exceptionally large fragments at the very fine-end of an otherwise well

Re: [meteorite-list] Sutter's Mill/Lotus/? bolide physics at the time of breakup

Any energy injected into particles by some sort of explosive fragmentation is depleted in a second or so. All the meteorites briefly follow substantially parabolic paths, and then spend most of their time falling perfectly vertically with respect to the prevailing wind. That is, they carry