[meteorite-list] Re: Images of UK contrail (not fireball)

From: j.divelbiss_at_att.net <j.divelbiss_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:21 2004
Message-ID: <20031003233241.3239B53670_at_pairlist.net>

Hello all,

I have a simple question that I would ask the boy and his friends.

Was this so-called fireball moving like a meteor or was it a stationary
phenomenena like a contrail with the sun lighting it?

His honest answer would clear up the whole thing...I'd think.

John
> > I'm leaning toward backlit aircraft contrail for three reasons --
> > the first of which has been mentioned, but the other two have not
>
> I fully agree with everything what Rob writes. Indeed, it was the long,
> narrow, only very slightly S-curved aspect of the trail on the second
> picture
> that made me remove all doubt that this is a contrail, as Neil Bone
> surmissed. And be honest, it really looks like that, except for the odd glow
> at the end, for which however there are perfectly liable explanations. And
> please: the glowing cloud at the end of the trail really does NOT look like
> a meteoric fireball. I've seen many meteoric fireballs myself, so I am quite
> sure of that.
>
> The second point, as well articulated by Rob Matson is that this phenomena
> was not widely (that is: nation wide) reported, as it should be would it be
> a meteoric fireball.
> The second picture was taken from a place not too far away from the first.
> The whole thing is in essence "local".
>
> So I don't think there's a meteorite gone to the bottom of the ocean.
>
> - Marco
>
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