[meteorite-list] Rock on the ground or not?

From: Lasse Lindh <3l_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:10:51 +0200
Message-ID: <47F0FEFB.4040101_at_comhem.se>

Hi Steve

No it turned weaker gradually in a smooth way. No sudden variations or
flashes.

Regards

Lasse


Steve Dunklee skrev:
> Did it go out then flare up again several times or
> just go dim? The one that almost hit my truck was at
> dusk so when it finally went out after flaring up
> several times it glowed dim before turning dark. then
> came at me like a line drive softball. I could still
> see it because the setting sun was behind it over the
> horizon and it was light enough out i had just turned
> my lights on but could see kids playing basketball.
> the whole event also seemed like ten seconds to me.
> One that fell near my house a few years ago came
> nearly strait down then spiraled like a piece of wood
> on fire lighting up the trees on the hill behind it as
> it flared up and went out before going out. My son and
> a friend of his found it several days later in a sand
> bar buried about a foot and a half deep.
> A good way to picture a meteorite fall is to stick a
> CD in an apple at a 30 degree angle with the stem
> north and the end point of the CD at the equator.
> If you consider the plane of the CD as the orbital
> plane of the meteorite. the meteorite will not deviate
> from this plane very much until it has reached
> terminal velocity. a person viewing from the stem may
> view the fall as Western in direction. a person
> viewing from the plane of the orbit will see a strait
> down fall. a person viewing from the southwest will
> see a fall traveling to the northeast.a person under
> the fall will see it travel east to west.
> as an example people in Burlingame Kansas saw the
> Paragould meteorite fall strait down. people in St
> Louis saw it fall Southwest. people in Kentucky saw it
> fall east to west and people in Batesville Ark saw it
> fall in a northwesterly direction. Amazing since
> Paragould is nearly parallel with Batesville.
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