[meteorite-list] "The high-pitched scream"?

[Jerry]

HA HA HA HA but right!
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Mark Crawford" <mark at meteorites.cc>; "Meteorite List" 
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] "The high-pitched scream"?



> Hi, Mark,

>

>    That "high-pitched scream" you hear

> as the one kilometer impactor drops on the

> planet is not coming from the impactor -- 

> it's coming from us!

>    My research indicates about half the

> human population emits a "high-pitched

> scream" while the other half creates a strong

> low-frequency rumble that sounds alot like

> "Oh, Sh----!"

>

>

> Sterling K. Webb

> ---------------------------------------------------

> ----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Mark Crawford" <mark at meteorites.cc>

> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>

> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:34 AM

> Subject: [meteorite-list] "The high-pitched scream"?

>

>

> Hi folks,

>

> On another forum someone posted about a recent TV programme he'd watched

> about NEOs.  At the end the guest astronomer said something to the

> effect that "the first we know about an incoming impactor could be the

> high-pitched scream as it speeds through the atmosphere."

>

> It got me wondering; a sizeable body would be travelling at cosmic (ie

> very supersonic) velocity right through to impact, and therefore the

> "scream" should trail behind the object - in other words, we wouldn't

> even get that much warning.

>

> Was the speaker using poetic license or would there be any kind of

> fore-shock?

>

> Mark

>

> -- 

> Mark's Meteorite Pages: http://meteorites.cc

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