[meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over Park Forest

From: Rob Wesel <*Nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com*> Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:00 2004 Message-ID: <001801c34590$6c9272d0$629fe70c_at_GOLIATH> · Nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DOD Satellites Detect March 2003 Bolide Over
Park Forest
> >
> > The distribution from Olympia Fields/Park Forest to Steger/Beecher would
> > argue that the flight path was NW to SE or vice versa. The larger masses
in
> > the Olympia Fields area would support the former. If they are correct I
was
> > searching the wrong side of every building. Please enlighten,
>
> That is interesting because the direction you noted is perpendicular to
what the
> DOD satellite saw.  Your distribution ellipse is based on actual finds, so
> combined with the DOD data, this indicates that the Park Forest
strewnfield is
> actually larger than orginally thought, and many of the meteorite
fragments
> have not been recovered, including some of the larger fragments. It would
be
> interesting to try to figure out how much your strewnfield ellipse
overlaps with
> the DOD ellipse.  The larger pieces would tend to fall downstream on the
far end
> of the ellipse, or some kilometers northeast of the coordinate given in
the DOD
> report (41.56 North latitude, 87.67 West longitude).  Incidently, how far
is
> this position from Park Forest and Beecher?
>
> Ron Baalke
>
>
>
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