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

From: Dave Johnson <dlj0202_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:01 2004
Message-ID: <1057782896_5572_at_a4f-filter>

Hello Al and list,

If the meteor did extinguish below 7000 feet as my
observation and the NWS data suggest (fireball seen below
the cloud deck and the NWS stated that the cloud deck base
height was 7000 feet at that time), then a very low
retardation point would not be out of the question.

Dave Johnson


>Hi Mike and all,
>
>Michael Farmer wrote:
>
>>>Yes, and is not Chicago called "The Windy City" ? <<
>
>All though it is windy in Chicago from the lake, the term
comes from politics as there
>are a lot of windy candidates.
>
>Besides winds perhaps the break up might have had some
something to do with fragments
>found. There is a retardation point that scientists speak
up where an item can almost
>come to a stop while falling from the pressure in front.
Perhaps we had a very low
>point of retardation.
>
>--AL (not so windy)
Received on Wed 09 Jul 2003 03:33:41 PM PDT