[meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:11:56 -0600
Message-ID: <533DCE9C.4050203_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

Daytime fireballs are easily missed, and small meteorites can be
produced with neither a significant fireball nor any audible atmospheric
acoustics. A fireball would have been several minutes earlier, and most
acoustics as well.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 4/3/2014 3:00 PM, Martin Neukamm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in the German internet forum the question arose, why there were neither a supersonic bang nor visible luminosic effects. It looks strange that a further skydiver appeared shortly after the stone passed the camera. But I aggree, the statistic argument is not valid, because *every* single event in our life can be calculated extremely improbable, a priori. If nobody wants it to have reproduced, the (a priori) likelyhood of a single event does not say it could have occured.
>
> Greetings
>
> Martin
Received on Thu 03 Apr 2014 05:11:56 PM PDT