[meteorite-list] Sutter Mills Flight Path Question

From: Marc Fries <mfries8_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:11:04 -0700
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Jake Schaefer gives it a direction of 272 degrees based on seismometer
data...

http://3dradar.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/canv-4222012-at-1556-utc/

Cheers,
Marc Fries


On 5/2/12 9:44 AM, Matson, Robert D. wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> Roughly east to west, based on the combination of radar returns and the
> angle of the trajectory as seen in Lisa Warren's images. Additional
> refinement needs to be done to determine whether the flight bearing
> was toward slightly north of west or slightly south of west. (The
> radar data suggests slightly north of west, but there could be some
> sampling bias in those images, and at least one local witness suggested
> a more ENE to WSW trajectory.) I'm still working on the trajectory and
> will post an update when I've pinned it down a little better. --Rob
>
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>
>
> Out of curiosity, can someone tell me which direction the meteor was
> traveling that produced the Sutter Mill meteorites? Was it going
> roughly from Coloma, Ca towards Rocklin, or the opposite? I never been
> able to get that pinned down....
> GeoZay
>
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