[meteorite-list] Wales images

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:21 2004
Message-ID: <Sea2-F34jNVtoX2gAb800012a17_at_hotmail.com>

One thing I did observe in the original posted Wales photo: The suspected
bolide was dropping through a layer of cirrus clouds. Part of the trail was
behind a thin layer of these clouds, and the "head" seemed to be in front
of, or below the same layer. How high was the cloud deck that day?

>If neither of the
>photographers captured the twisting train, then surely they would have
>noted the train
>being all twisted up shortly afterwards. I haven't found any mentioning of
>the
>train being twisted. The time that would have gone by after photographing,
>would have been plenty of time for it to form this way...also I can't
>believe
>that they wouldn't have looked back at it again after photographing it and
>noticing the changing shape by then.
>George Zay


Would the photographers have necessarily gone back to note if the train was
"twisting", as bolide trails usually do? If they had no experience (as
seems likely) with residual smoke trains from meteors, it might not have
struck them as important to note or document.

"Don't ascribe to malice what is usually attributable to ignorance" ;-)

Tracy Latimer

_________________________________________________________________
Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of incoming attachments. Get Hotmail
Extra Storage! http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es
Received on Sat 04 Oct 2003 08:57:17 PM PDT