[meteorite-list] Sutter Mills Flight Path Question

From: GeoZay at aol.com <GeoZay_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 18:08:42 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <f261.73f7ec54.3cd30a69_at_aol.com>

Thanks Rob, you helped me out a lot. When the meteor first entered the
atmosphere, I was hearing a variety of interpretations. The one that puzzled
me the most was a report that it had exploded over the town of
Snelling...which is about 20 or so miles northeast of Merced, CA.
GeoZay

In a message dated 5/2/2012 1:33:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com writes:
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
Received on Wed 02 May 2012 06:08:42 PM PDT