[meteorite-list] UK bolide flight path update

From: Graham Ensor <graham.ensor_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:16:56 +0100
Message-ID: <CAJkn+kbOWF0AKHADBYK3sPEPGSyS8ZXL-SzTTGZcWoAKexki8g_at_mail.gmail.com>

Looks like a holiday on the Ilse of Man then eh?


On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Rob Matson <mojave_meteorites at cox.net> wrote:
> I went back to Graham's original post and see that the fireball was also
> travelling right-to-left as seen from Preston, UK:
>
>>Reports of massive fireball travelling across the UK just over 1 hour ago...
>>Very much like Peekskill....video here...lots of other pictures coming in...
>>
>>http://twitter.yfrog.com/07l5tkggpuvoluavefdcaztrz
>>
>>Graham
>
> This moves the ground track a bit further to the north, crossing more
> over the center of the Isle of Man than the southern tip. It's
> unfortunate that the meteoroid has already broken up into dozens of
> pieces by the time it passes north of Preston -- a lot of those will
> have ended up in the sea (though with luck maybe some on the Isle of
> Man itself). And yet many pieces seem to maintain a decent fraction
> of their cosmic velocity as they continue to the WNW, so they must
> be of pretty good size. --Rob
>
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Received on Sat 22 Sep 2012 07:16:56 PM PDT