[meteorite-list] How far away can a meteor be heard?

From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: 09 Jul 2009 16:27:07 UT
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000007600003DB1_at_paulinet.de>

All you (hopefully: lucky) hunters might also have to factor this into your
calculations and hunting preparations:

During its luminous phase which lasted over 40 seconds, the Peekskill meteoroid
covered a ground path of some 700 to 800 km according to Brown et al. (1994).

Aerodynamic drag caused a greater than 20 km longitudinal displacement of the
fragments and the transverse displacement was about 1km for some of the
smaller fragments.


Video Observations of the Peekskill Meteorite Fireball: Atmospheric
Trajectory and Orbit (Meteoritics 29-4, 1994, p. 455):

The dark flight of the recovered meteorite started from a height of 30 km, when
the velocity dropped below 3 km/s, and the body continued an additional horizontal
distance of 50 km without ablation, until it hit a parked car in Peekskill, New York,
with a vertical velocity of about 80 m/s.

Good luck!

Bernd
Received on Thu 09 Jul 2009 12:27:07 PM PDT