[meteorite-list] Re: Student Recorded Meteors A Week Before India Fireball

From: Bob Martino <martino.6_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:23 2004
Message-ID: <015101c38d41$4879d340$0300000a_at_TheMonolith>

Is it just me, or are there SERIOUS problems with this article?

And you all thought that WESTERN reporters couldn't get facts straight!

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> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 12:29:24 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Student Recorded Meteors A Week Before India
Fireball
>
>
> http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_406490,000600010004.htm
>
> City student recorded meteors a week before Orissa incident
> Press Trust of India
> October 7, 2003
>
> Mumbia - A city based amateur astronomer had observed and photographed a
> huge fire ball-- the meteorites of the same origin as those hit Orissa
> villages on the evening of September 27, from suburban Mulund in south
> Mumbai, exactly a week before.
>
> Rahul Patil, who also made an important observation that the meteor
> shower was associated with "Aquarid" (originated from the constellation
> Aquarius) meteor shower, had sent the observations to Nehru Planetarium
> in Mumbai and the International Meteor Organisation, Germany.
>
> Confirming the claim, Solar Astronomer of Nehru Planetarium and
> Vice-President of Mumbai Amateur Astronomer's Association, Bharat Adur
> said "Strangely, no planetaria and none of the leading institutes doing
> research in astronomy in the country were found to be studying this
> meteor shower".
>
> Patil said the cosmic shower was not yet over as there were 534
> near-earth meteors in the sky currently, of which 30 asteroids were
> passing very close to earth from September 11 to November 16, 2003.
>
> "Another strike is expected anytime but where and when depends on the
> keen observers", he told PTI.
>
> They are going to be very close to the earth to the tune of 0.0228
> Astronomical Units (one AU= 150 km), the distance less than that of
> moon from the earth, Patil said.
>
> Patil said that on September 19, a week before the actual strike in
> Orissa, he had observed one of the "bolide" (exploding) meteor moving
> from south to west at 8.20 pm and a second one moving from southeast
> to west at 8.47 pm.
>
Received on Tue 07 Oct 2003 10:09:56 PM PDT