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

From: Frank Prochaska <fprochas_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:21:02 2004
Message-ID: <NDBBICFKNKHAAEEJLDALMECDDKAA.fprochas_at_premier1.net>

Hello list,

Would it be possible for someone to get enough data from the DOD satellite
detection to determine initial velocity, final velocity at extintion, and
altitude at extintion to help resolve (wishful thinking, I know) this part
of the Park Forest debate? Is this something that the DOD might release, or
might they release enough raw data for one of the more upstanding,
trustworthy, researcher types on this list to make that calculation?


Frank Prochaska



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


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)


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