[meteorite-list] Fireball report from this morning in Utah

From: E.P. Grondine <epgrondine_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 08:00:03 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <681918.41660.qm_at_web36910.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

HI Chris -
--- Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

> most of the rest see some variation of
> green, ranging from pale lime to bluish. This is
> probably caused by the 558 nm "forbidden"
> oxygen emission line, mixed to varying degrees with
> a white thermal emission.

What is this? I remember that the first of the two
fireballs which I have seen was so green I thought it
was a re-entering war-head.

Ed



 
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Received on Thu 07 Dec 2006 11:00:03 AM PST