[meteorite-list] "The high-pitched scream"?

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:29:55 -0500
Message-ID: <6080C73317F14F07BEB57C07FFA639E4_at_Notebook>

HA HA HA HA but right!
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Mark Crawford" <mark at meteorites.cc>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "The high-pitched scream"?


> Hi, Mark,
>
> That "high-pitched scream" you hear
> as the one kilometer impactor drops on the
> planet is not coming from the impactor --
> it's coming from us!
> My research indicates about half the
> human population emits a "high-pitched
> scream" while the other half creates a strong
> low-frequency rumble that sounds alot like
> "Oh, Sh----!"
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Crawford" <mark at meteorites.cc>
> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:34 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] "The high-pitched scream"?
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> On another forum someone posted about a recent TV programme he'd watched
> about NEOs. At the end the guest astronomer said something to the
> effect that "the first we know about an incoming impactor could be the
> high-pitched scream as it speeds through the atmosphere."
>
> It got me wondering; a sizeable body would be travelling at cosmic (ie
> very supersonic) velocity right through to impact, and therefore the
> "scream" should trail behind the object - in other words, we wouldn't
> even get that much warning.
>
> Was the speaker using poetic license or would there be any kind of
> fore-shock?
>
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark's Meteorite Pages: http://meteorites.cc
>
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