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Bolide size vs. Recovered Stone(s)
Dear List Members,
Here are some Sky & Telescope reports. As you can see, they consistently
use the term fireball:
Dec 77 Dazzling Czechoslovakian Fireball, 475-478*
Nov 79 Anomalous sounds from fireballs, 420-421
Apr 81 Tale of two fireballs, 300-301
Dec 82 An East coast fireball, 616
Aug 83 An Upsilon Pegasid Fireball, 174
Apr 85 How to report a fireball, 372-373**
Feb 88 Daytime fireball, 204***
Feb 90 Fireball rates 131
Jun 91 Astronomical Computing, 640-642 (+)
Jun 91 Scorpiid Fireballs, 642
* albeit there is a photo on p. 477 showing a ‘fireball’ passing close
to the Andromeda galaxy. The caption says: The tradition of f i r e b a
l l photography in Czechoslovakia goes back many decades and includes
this famous four-hour exposure on September the 23, 1923, taken by
Joseph Klepesta ... At left is the trail of a very bright b o l i d e
...
** A sketch on page 372 says: Sometimes a f i r e b a l l
disintegrates in several stages marked by burst of light. This bright b
o l i d e (EXPLODING FIREBALL) in Herkules was sketched on August 8,
1926, ...
*** Interestingly, O.R. Norton was among those who investigated the
sightings and pinpointed the (potential) fall.
(+) Flight Of A Long-Enduring Fireball: Written in BASIC, the
accompanying computer program can do a surprisingly accurate simulation
of the August 10, 1972, Earth-grazing daylight fireball.
Regards, Bernd Pauli