[meteorite-list] You are wrong Robert, that's a METEOR!

From: (wrong string) ørn Sørheim <bsoerhei_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:22 2004
Message-ID: <200310061936.VAA01065_at_mail44.fg.online.no>

Hello Robert & List,
I really don't know how you arrived at your numbers.
And I'm really not (that) interested.
BECAUSE, if you have garbage in -> garbage out, as we all know.

You don't know where the observers are, you don't know the field of
the two different cameras, you don't know the azimuth of the two sighting
lines, you don't know the altitude angle in the sky for the
meteor head. You can't even be sure of the time.
And you rotate the image to get the steepness of the tail you wish...
You make a LOT of *assumptions* of this values, and you have your
BLACK BOX method which you never really explained.
Do you think anyone can trust the results you might get??

If you get a zillion mathematically correct decimal numbers out,
as long as you put unverified numbers in, they are worth *nothing*.
And I still don't know what's going on in your BLACK BOX!??

Until we get more verified numbers, I can't compute anything here.
I don't see what's the point in going on with this debate, as
long as we have no firm footing in reality. Get those numbers, if not
I will terminate the discussion.

BTW, give me your guessing, HOW FAR AWAY ARE THOSE CLOUDS, Robert?!!
(Those right in front of the meteor head.)
GIVE ME YOUR GUESS.
That answers the riddle I posed yesterday.............
I know the answer, you see.

Regards,
Bjørn Sørheim
Received on Mon 06 Oct 2003 03:36:24 PM PDT