[meteorite-list] Bad camera location ... AGAIN

From: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:33:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1319060011.75265.YahooMailClassic_at_web161204.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

Rob and List,
This is often the case. I would use the coordinates that the camera operator gives. Sometimes the location given by the camera operator is also incorrect, although I do not think that is the case this time. Best, Dirk

I have posted the operators` information as well as the contact names given to me. with links.

--- On Thu, 10/20/11, Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com> wrote:

> From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Bad camera location ... AGAIN
> To: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 6:23 AM
> As seems to happen with every new
> fall, I find significant discrepancies
> between reported All-Sky camera locations, and the
> coordinates that the
> camera operators claim for their cameras. In the case of
> the Soest, Germany,
> camera, I did not have the camera coordinates yesterday, so
> I just used
> the center of Soest, Germany. But according to the
> operator's website:
>
> http://www.chief-impactor.de/meteorcam/index.html
>
> the camera is at 50?42'38"N, 7?22'44"E, 250m. If you plot
> this on a map,
> it is NOWHERE NEAR Soest -- it's in Buchholz, 60 miles to
> the southwest
> of Soest! So which is right for this camera -- the city
> name or the
> coordinates?
>
> --Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: drtanuki [mailto:drtanuki at yahoo.com]
>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:58 PM
> To: Matson, Robert D.; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Germany/Netherlands meteor
> update
>
> Rob and List,? It seems that the triangulation leads
> to a potential drop in Holland: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/10/soest-germany-fireball-meteor-16oct2011.html?
> Thank you Rob!? Dirk...Tokyo
>
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Received on Wed 19 Oct 2011 05:33:31 PM PDT