[meteorite-list] Tagish Lake entry angle

From: David Weir <dgweir_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:13 2004
Message-ID: <3D595B5A.C15CAC73_at_earthlink.net>

Hello Bernd, Rob, List,

"The entry angle was shallow, about 16 degrees from the
horizontal, causing an unusually long "shooting star"
that lasted some 15 seconds, according to eyewitnesses."

The Tagish Lake strewn field covers an area of at least 16 x 5 km (see
map: http://www.meteoritestudies.com/TAGISHSF.JPG), which is about half
the distance from the accepted Nakhla strewn field to Denshal (~33 km).
Of course, it would be desirable to be able to compare apples to apples.
Perhaps the Peekskill angle data would be more illuminating.

David
Received on Tue 13 Aug 2002 03:17:46 PM PDT