[meteorite-list] Meteor Reported in Australia

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jun 30 13:57:06 2004
Message-ID: <016d01c45ecb$a4a05700$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Portales Valley was spinning when it fell, so I think that if the body has a
strange angled shape, that it can tumble, or spin while falling, I doubt
that it was zig zagging as in changing directions like they suggest.
Mike Farmer
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From: "Marc D. Fries" <m.fries_at_gl.ciw.edu>
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteor Reported in Australia


>
> Zig-zagging = tumbling space junk?
>
> MDF
>
> >
> >
> > http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1143829.htm]
> >
> > Meteorite reported in southern WA
> > Australian Broadcasting Corporation
> > June 30, 2004
> >
> > The Perth Observatory says it has had reports a meteor has crashed
> > near Walpole in Western Australia's south.
> >
> > Witnesses say they saw a large, fiery object zigzagging through the
> > sky at about 5:30pm yesterday.
> >
> > The witnesses say the object left a trail of thick smoke and then
> > they heard a bang.
> >
> > The observatory says it appears the object was travelling somewhere
> > between Perth and Albany in a south-south easterly direction.
> >
> > Walpole resident Heather Burton was in her backyard when she saw the
> > object.
> >
> > She says it was unlike a normal shooting star.
> >
> > "A shooting star usually just goes straight across or straight down
> > - this one had these gradual zigzags just coming down," she said.
> >
> > Alex Bevan from the WA Museum says the reports indicate the
> > sightings were the result of a fireball generated by a meteorite.
> >
> > "We're certainly picking up reports of a bright fireball and sonic
> > phenomena associated - I'm absolutely sure - with the fall of a
> > meteorite," Dr Bevan said.
> >
> > Dr Bevan says it will be difficult to find where the meteorite landed.
> >
> > "Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be as many observations, so
> > actually pinning down where the object landed might be a bit
> > difficult and in that area, the vegetation might mean searching for
> > it would be difficult," he said.
> >
> >
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