Huh??? > The object probably accelerated quickly in Earth's atmosphere, streaking > faster > than 20,000 mph by the time it was 10 or 15 miles above the surface, Murphy > speculated. At that point, the shock wave created by such acceleration could > have split the meteorite into many pieces, which fell to the ground or > disintegrated.
So meteorites actually accelerate in our atmosphere rather than decelerate? > Doug Duncan, director of the University of Colorado's Fiske Planetarium, was > pessimistic that anyone would stumble upon a chunk of meteorite. > "For every correct meteorite an amateur collects, there's 10 'meteorwrongs,'" > he > joked. "And these things typically burn at 100 miles up. They can look pretty > close, but that's deceptive." Wow! a 10% meteorite/wrong success rate. I've heard ASU put their rate at 1% and I figured that was generous. Just my early morning breakfast thoughts. Cheers, Martin ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
