Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball reports coming in from Michigan
"Hello Chris, List, If anyone receives more information regarding this event, please contact me on or off list. Thanks, Larry" Listees, Larry, hope we can keep this on-list for all those interested. The local astronomy club seems to have it covered (GTA = Greater Toronto Area): Best, Doug http://durhamregion.typepad.com/astronomy/2007/03/meteor_lights_u.html Sunday March 11th at about 8 PM -People throughout the GTA witnessed a fireball moving across our sky towards the west. Police switchboards from the Regions of Durham, York and Toronto started to receive the calls of the curious and the concerned. Was it a plane in distress? A meteor shower? A UFO? Maybe even "space junk" such as a spent rocket booster finally making it back to Earth after years in orbit. What people likely saw was the blazing trail of a little rock burning up in our upper atmosphere as it traversed the sky. Usually with such events, it's unlikely that anything actually makes it to the ground. What's happening here? In a word -compression. As the object enters the atmosphere, it compresses the air in front of it. The air heats up to extremely high temperatures, consuming the unfortunate object in the process. You can experience something similar -on a smaller scale of course- when you pump up a bicycle tire with a manual air pump. The pump gets hotter and hotter as you compress the air in the tire to a higher pressure. Will we find any physical evidence of last night's sky show? Not likely but if we do, I'll keep you posted. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball reports coming in from Michigan
In a message dated 3/11/2007 8:00:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've received three fireball reports in the last few minutes from Michigan and Ontario. I usually consider multiple out-of-area (Colorado) reports significant since I don't get many. The event was at 1955-2000 EDT, roughly north to south, blue-green with lots of fragmentation, terminal point approximately over Detroit. Definitely east of South Bend, and west of London. The path may have crossed most of the Lower Peninsula. Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Hello Chris, List, If anyone receives more information regarding this event, please contact me on or off list. Thanks, Larry ** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Fireball reports coming in from Michigan
I've received three fireball reports in the last few minutes from Michigan and Ontario. I usually consider multiple out-of-area (Colorado) reports significant since I don't get many. The event was at 1955-2000 EDT, roughly north to south, blue-green with lots of fragmentation, terminal point approximately over Detroit. Definitely east of South Bend, and west of London. The path may have crossed most of the Lower Peninsula. Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
