[meteorite-list] Iranian Fireball Was Of Geophysical Origin

From: Pekka Savolainen <pekka.savolainen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:22 2004
Message-ID: <402C57A7.5000704_at_dlc.fi>

Well,

these geophysical events has not been studied much. One of a
few pics I have seen of the ball-lightning can be found from;

http://www.netholist.net/rajatiede/pallosalama.php

taken by Roy Jennings in Yorkshire, UK. Text only in finnish,
sorry...;- Also a pic of a hole in a window made by ball-lightning
can be found from the same site.

Something about ball-lightning and St.Elmos;

http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/tesla/ballgtn.html

I think, there are several reasons in science community, this item
is not much popular. They are quite rare, they are very fast and
they usually donīt left their business-card on the ground...;-

Some groups have tried to make similar phenomenas using the
very high-voltage submarine batteries. The results were very
interresting, but nothing like this.

I have seen a ball-lighting to hit the antenna of a house, travel out
trough the open door, then over 70 meters to a sauna and explose
in the owen and blow all the ashes in the air. All this in 2 - 3 seconds.

Think there are two ways to explains this, Iīm nuts or these things
exists. And I didnīt eat mushrooms...;-

take care,

pekka s



Adam Hupe wrote:

>Dear Charles, Rosemary and List,
>
>Dr. Andrei Ol'khovatov from Moscow, Russia weighed in on the Elma incident
>and came to the same conclusion, a geometeorite was to blame. It is amazing
>how similar the two events are. The kid with the burnt fingers in Elma and
>a kid with a burnt face in Iran. Three laboratories weighed in on the Elma
>incident. Two believe it to be a geophysical event and one believes there
>is a more earthly explanation. To me it is an unsolved mystery. I stopped
>commenting in public because there is no way to prove what happened either
>way and it was causing some grief with a few List members.
>
>All the best,
>
>Adam Hupe
>The Hupe Collection
>IMCA 2185
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Charles Viau" <cviau_at_beld.net>
>To: "'Meteorite Mailing List'" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:53 PM
>Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Iranian Fireball Was Of Geophysical Origin
>
>
>>It very well could be related, and why it was so important to properly
>>document the Elma incident, even though all of the 'experts' gave the
>>principal investigators such grief. This is what science is all about. I
>>would hope that there are some geo-physicists out there that will want
>>to pull some of this material together from those 3 sources and look for
>>similarities. The people who witnessed such events were not stupid, nor
>>were they having any hallucinations.
>>
>>CharlyV
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com
>>[mailto:meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary
>>Hackney
>>Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:12 PM
>>To: Ron Baalke; Meteorite Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Iranian Fireball Was Of Geophysical Origin
>>
>>Is this similar to the Elma incident? Elma intrigues me. It looks like
>>sand
>>or particulate material having been fused. Perhaps was sucked up by a
>>dust
>>devil or other storm wind and electrical discharge in the atmosphere
>>fused
>>it like glass? Anyway.. is this Iranian material considered a
>>geometeorite
>>also?
>>
>>Rosie
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
>>To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>>Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 11:38 AM
>>Subject: [meteorite-list] Iranian Fireball Was Of Geophysical Origin
>>
>>
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