[meteorite-list] "corkscrewing" meteorites

From: Steve Schoner <steve_schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:22:39 2004
Message-ID: <20030616135528.51000.qmail_at_web12702.mail.yahoo.com>

I think that a person took a famous photo of the
Pasamonte fireball as it was happening with a camera.
According to him, and Nininger who reported it, it
corkscrewed in flight.

Steve Schoner/AMS


--- Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_wanadoo.nl>
wrote:
> Be carefull here. The dusttrails and/or persistent
> trains left by meteorites
> will start to twist after formation due to high
> altitude winds, often
> creating a cork-screw pattern in the dust-trail or
> persistent train. I've
> seen it happen many times with persistent trains of
> fireballs. It sometimes
> happens in seconds. This is not due to the meteorite
> itself cork-screwing
> down, but it might lure an eye-witness in thinking
> it was.
>
> This is not to say that I want to discount the
> possibility some do, but it
> is a fact, I have never seen any good photograph of
> a bright meteor
> corkscrewing, other than a few where the effect was
> instrumental (introduced
> by camera-movements), or likely to be so.
>
> - Marco
>
> ----------
> Drs Marco Langbroek
>
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> meteorites_at_dmsweb.org
> http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek
>
> "What seest thou else
> In the dark backward and abysm of time?"
>
> William Shakespeare
> The Tempest act I scene
> 2
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Received on Mon 16 Jun 2003 09:55:28 AM PDT