[meteorite-list] Rock on the ground or not?

[Lasse Lindh]

Hi Steve

No it turned weaker gradually in a smooth way. No sudden variations or 
flashes.

Regards

Lasse


Steve Dunklee skrev:

> Did it go out then flare up again several times or

> just go dim? The one that almost hit my truck was at

> dusk so when it finally went out after flaring up

> several times it glowed dim before turning dark. then

> came at me like a line drive softball. I could still

> see it because the setting sun was behind it over the

> horizon and it was light enough out i had just turned

> my lights on but could see kids playing basketball.

> the whole event also seemed like ten seconds to me.

>    One that fell near my house a few years ago came

> nearly strait down then spiraled like a piece of wood

> on fire lighting up the trees on the hill behind it as

> it flared up and went out before going out. My son and

> a friend of his found it several days later in a sand

> bar buried about a foot and a half deep.

>  A good way to picture a meteorite fall is to stick a

> CD in an apple at a 30 degree angle with the stem

> north and the end point of the CD at the equator.

>  If you consider the plane of the CD as the orbital

> plane of the meteorite. the meteorite will not deviate

> from this plane very much until it has reached

> terminal velocity. a person viewing from the stem may

> view the fall as Western in direction. a person

> viewing from the plane of the orbit will see a strait

> down fall. a person viewing from the southwest will

> see a fall traveling to the northeast.a person under

> the fall will see it travel east to west.

>  as an example people in Burlingame Kansas saw the

> Paragould meteorite fall strait down. people in St

> Louis saw it fall Southwest. people in Kentucky saw it

> fall east to west and people in Batesville Ark saw it

> fall in a northwesterly direction. Amazing since

> Paragould is nearly parallel with Batesville.

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