[meteorite-list] Re:Fireball Flash?

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:13:09 2004
Message-ID: <3EA73057.2FE902F_at_bhil.com>

Hi,

    One of the things that interested me about the witness
statements to Park Forest was a woman who described seeing the
flash from her car and added that there was a "huge thunderclap
about two minutes afterward."
    That's 120 seconds times 1100 feet per second, or a distance
of about 25-26 miles. Unfortunately the article did not state if
the flash was overhead for that observer (25 miles straight up)
or at, say, 45 degrees elevation (would be 17 miles up).


Sterling Webb
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GeoZay_at_aol.com wrote:

>
> >>But until today I did not believe it. Is it
> worth the look?<<
>
> Probably not. Sounds like a terminal burst...fairly common when
> some meteorites blows theirselves apart at the end of it's
> trajectory....still high up and no where near the ground. If it
> blew up as it hit the ground, then it's a very big object and
> simply look for the large crater...you shouldn't be able to
> miss it.
> George Zay
Received on Wed 23 Apr 2003 08:31:20 PM PDT