[meteorite-list] Re: Teton movie

From: gle_at_bellatlantic.net <gle_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:41:53 2004
Message-ID: <3A50BB4E.CC599E73_at_mailbox.bellatlantic.net>

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL, This is in response to an old message(10/20/00)- It
takes awhile for the stimuli to reach the brain and back. I believe that
Teton footage is in the Discovery/TLC video THREE MINUTES TO IMPACT-
Best To All, GRANT ELLIOTT

E.P. Grondine wrote:
>
> Thanks - I always wondered where that movie was at. I
> wish NASA would buy rights and post it to the net.
> Are the old size estimates for this thing correct
> (i.l. that if it had hit it would have caused massive
> damage)?
>
> EP
>
> --- CMcdon0923_at_aol.com wrote:
> > Also, I have a copy of the July 1974 issues of Sky
> > and Telescope magazine
> > article which has a FABULOUS series of images taken
> > of the Grand Teton
> > fireball of 1972. It states that the photographer
> > (Linda Baker) captured 26
> > seconds of its flight on an 8mm movie, based of the
> > frames per second rate
> > of her camera (461 frames total), and that was just
> > until it passed out of
> > her view, behind clouds. There was also an admitted
> > few seconds delay before
> > she was able to grab her camera and begin filming.
> >
> > Craig
> >
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Received on Mon 01 Jan 2001 12:15:58 PM PST