[meteorite-list] FW: Seismic Data search for 6JUL09 meteor

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:00:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <245521.41470.qm_at_web53107.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Marc,
  Who is going to follow up on the seismic data? I can assist then to a point. Best Regards, Dirk...Tokyo

NEXRAD Radar in one post on my blog did not show anything but the operator may have not had the skill to interpret the data?




--- On Thu, 7/9/09, Fries, Marc D <marc.d.fries at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> From: Fries, Marc D <marc.d.fries at jpl.nasa.gov>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] FW: Seismic Data search for 6JUL09 meteor
> To: "List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 12:24 AM
>
> So we?ve got folks looking over the seismic data, an
> astronomer?s take on
> the still photo, a nice .kmz by Elton...? This is
> turning into a real ?stone
> soup? fireball event.???I?m diggin? it.
>
> Cheers,
> Marc Fries
>
>
> On 7/9/09 11:08 AM, "Kelly Beatty" <jkellybeatty at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > folks...
> >
> > my take: this putative fall is unlikely to generate a
> seismic signal if
> > pieces hit the ground at terminal free-fall velocity
> (several hundred mph
> > for really large chunks, much less for smaller ones).
> >
> > meanwhile, I've analyzed Mike Hankey's photo. assuming
> the bolide was 1:10
> > am local time and "falling from the sky", as reports
> indicate, then the
> > meteor segment in the image he took was centered at AZ
> 73?, AL 63??, and had
> > a bearing toward the east-northeast horizon.
> >
> >
> > clear skies,
> > Kelly
> >
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