[meteorite-list] Cali meteorite fall trajectory and offset of damage.

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:38:12 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <567889.43748.qm_at_web33106.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Armando, we did measure the hole/impact offsets, of 3
of the 4 house smashers (Cali #004 did not enter the
home, so there was only the initial impact point).
The other two were offset from ~9 cm for Cali #003
which hit the top of the refrigerator so did no travel
very far after penetrating the roof.
Cali #001 was offset more than 30 cm and it was
exactly in the North/South trajectory, just like the
dirction of travel, so it was not falling strait down
at terminal velocity.

Cali #002 was offset by about 15 cm, same, north/south
trajectory.

These are more things that I need to tweek on the
pages. It shows to me that the meteorite were moving
very rapidly for such small stones to do as much
damage as they did, and they were not just falling
strait down.

Michael Farmer


--- Armando Afonso <armandoafonso at oniduo.pt> wrote:

> Interesting report.
> Something maybe feasible could be the determination
> of the vector between
> the hole on the roof and the marks on the floor.
> This for each stone, and compare them with a 3d
> plot.
> Would they be paralel or radial? Would they focus?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Farmer" <meteoriteguy at yahoo.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:01 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Ok, all Cali meteorite
> pages are up.
>
>
> > After about 18 hours of work, all pages are up and
> > running. Tomorrow I will make corrections, and
> post
> > links to all of the newspaper articles regarding
> the
> > meteorite fall. There are a lot of them, but all
> in
> > Spanish. I don't know why the english news never
> > picked up on this one. Notkin? You busy oh god of
> > press releases?
> >
> >
>
http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/CALIcolombiafall.htm
> >
> > http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/cali001.htm
> >
> > http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/cali002.htm
> >
> > http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/cali003.htm
> >
> > http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/cali004.htm
> >
> > http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/cali005.htm
> >
> > http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/cali006.htm
> >
> > http://meteoriteguy.com/califall/cali007.htm
> >
> > If anyone finds any errors, please let me know,
> this
> > is a boatload of work getting all these links and
> > photos organized.
> >
> > Michael Farmer
> >
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