Re: [meteorite-list] uk meteor w/ at least one fragmentation- must be several videos?

2024-02-20 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
Looks to be at least 50km off the coast over the North Sea. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com On 2/20/2024 3:53 PM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list wrote: List,   uk meteor w/ at least one fragmentation-- https

Re: [meteorite-list] Asteroid the size of 112 camels - yes, you read that correctly

2023-03-31 Thread Chris Monrad via Meteorite-list
The same author at that outlet was using camels only three weeks ago….. Asteroid the size of 112 camels to pass Earth Wednesday - NASA - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com) <https://www.jpost.com/science/article-733651> Regards, Chris Monrad - Original Message - From: &qu

Re: [meteorite-list] Small, earth-impacting asteroid/meteoroid videos now showing up online

2023-02-15 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
Meteorites have now been recovered. Models suggest a single main mass of around 1kg from the terminal explosion and multiple small pieces from earlier fragmentation events along the meteor path. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https

Re: [meteorite-list] Small, earth-impacting asteroid/meteoroid videos now showing up online

2023-02-14 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
It was heading generally eastward over the Channel and was still burning when it crossed the French shoreline. It is likely to have dropped meteorites on land. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com On 2/14/2023 3:29 AM, Graham

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA sending ship to asteroid worth 70, 000 times more than the global economy

2023-01-31 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
To be fair, we are sitting right now on a planet worth a lot more than that! And we don't have to go anywhere to investigate it. Resource quantity isn't really the problem. It's accessing those resources. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Ob

[meteorite-list] Central Indiana Boom

2022-03-31 Thread Chris Friedman via Meteorite-list
Hey guys, Just want to check in to see if we have more information on a landing in central Indiana. The state is still trying to figure out the mystery explosion/boom that cannot be explained. My first thought was an object crashing to earth. Here are a couple of articles. So far, a couple of

Re: [meteorite-list] odd cloud, print error, meteor?

2022-03-25 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
Chemical or liquid stain of some sort. Not part of the photographic image. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com On 3/25/2022 2:09 AM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list wrote: https://www.ebay.com/itm/RPPC-Dam-Construction-c-1910

Re: [meteorite-list] Noblesville IN possible meteorite landing December

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Friedman via Meteorite-list
To add…the hot tub is quite loud with the jets running. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2022, at 8:24 PM, Chris Friedman > wrote: > > I saw this article from 2018 when I was looking for news about my sighting. > I was not aware of the 2018 sighting. Maybe we are in a h

Re: [meteorite-list] Noblesville IN possible meteorite landing December

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Friedman via Meteorite-list
ote: > >  > Hello Chris > > Did you hear anything during the event? > > https://www.meteorite-times.com/the-noblesville-meteorite-a-cosmic-contrast-of-young-and-old/ > > Best, > Martin > > >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 6:10 PM Chris Friedman via Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Noblesville IN possible meteorite landing December

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
anywhere nearby. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com On 1/20/2022 7:32 AM, Mendy Ouzillou wrote: What velocity range to meteors decelerate to when they enter dark flight? It someone sees it breakup directly overhead (i.e. prior t

Re: [meteorite-list] Noblesville IN possible meteorite landing December

2022-01-20 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
If you saw it break up near the horizon, any meteorites produced are 100 miles or more away from you. For meteorites to be within a few miles of your location you would have seen it break up directly overhead. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https

[meteorite-list] Noblesville IN possible meteorite landing December

2022-01-19 Thread Chris Friedman via Meteorite-list
local news or social media about the sighting. If you are a serious hunter of meteorites and would like to reach out to me for more info, send me an email. Thanks! Chris Sent from my iPhone __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Washington SpaceX fall event: debris recovered

2021-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
property. The owner of the property typically has no claim to the vehicle wreckage. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com On 4/3/2021 9:24 AM, Dennis Miller via Meteorite-list wrote: I have not seen a Federal Regulation pert

Re: [meteorite-list] hot vs. cold meteorite falls

2021-03-22 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
kids' game where you dare somebody to keep their back to you while you touch the back of their neck with a hot iron, and then actually touch them with an ice cube? Most people startle and believe you've burned them. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudba

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball 'as bright as full moon' spotted in night sky over Japan

2020-11-29 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
http://www.cloudbait.com/fireball.php?fb=fb/fb_2020-11-26x.dat Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com On 11/29/2020 5:35 AM, Steinar Midtskogen via Meteorite-list wrote: Another one peaking much, much brighter than the full moon last

[meteorite-list] [AD] Almahatta Sitta, Black Beauty (NWA 11220), Sikhote Alin etched slice...

2018-03-26 Thread Chris Colvin via Meteorite-list
myself for provenance purposes. If you have any questions at all feel free to ask! Have an excellent night and thanks for any and all consideration -Chris Colvin IMCA 5452 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the

Re: [meteorite-list] Seismic Event w/ Bolide?

2018-01-17 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
sus time. From that it is possible to derive actual information about the energy dissipated in the atmosphere and delivered to the ground. Typical kinetic energies for fireball events like this may be on the order of 10^11 joules or more- say, 100 tons TNT equivalent. Chris ******

Re: [meteorite-list] Seismic Event w/ Bolide?

2018-01-17 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
; as in "only every few hundred or thousand years".) Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 1/17/2018 7:22 AM, Greg Redfern via Meteorite-list wrote: List, Has there been other bolide events that have had a seismic cor

Re: [meteorite-list] Stability of Sericho (Habaswein)

2017-12-05 Thread Chris Colvin via Meteorite-list
Hope this cleared some of the questions up. Regards, Chris On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:49 PM, John Lutzon via Meteorite-list < meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> wrote: > No Adam, > > I just gave some praise towards you, to someone. However, > > I'm in no

Re: [meteorite-list] Another fireball

2017-11-18 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
Almost certainly not a Taurid. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 11/17/2017 1:40 PM, Finbarr Connolly via Meteorite-list wrote: Hello, These Taurid fireballs are really putting on a show, here's yet another one -

Re: [meteorite-list] RSVP Ongoing rants

2017-08-14 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
No, this isn't spam in the usual sense. It's clearly directed towards meteor and meteorite people- long rants about how unfair the meteorite classification system is. It's somebody who is very disgrunted, or mentally ill. Or both. Chris *** C

Re: [meteorite-list] RSVP Ongoing rants

2017-08-12 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
A weird little dialog between that sender and another at yeah.net has been getting sent to the IMO info email address for the last week or so. Complete lunacy, apparently. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 8/12/2017 2:18

Re: [meteorite-list] Hello From Joann

2016-07-26 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
If you see a meteor that appears to strike the ground, it's probably over 100 miles away. Maybe much more. That's because they stop burning when they're a few tens of miles high. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudba

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-29 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
simply didn't have enough time for that process to proceed beyond the outer few millimeters. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 6/29/2016 1:29 AM, Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list wrote: Elton...I agree with most of that..

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs. Cold again...

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
is warm on landing. The interior will be cold, and the outer few millimeters might be near ambient, simply because of the warmer air encountered over the last minute or so of dark flight. But within a minute I'd expect the outside to get colder again because of transfer to the cold in

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
ast that with a meteorite: much smaller surface area compared with volume, low thermal conductivity, very high speed of impact, and very little friction (with most of the surface never even contacting the roof). Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://ww

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Bright Fireball Over Europe on Halloween Night

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
ce from the fireball to the witness. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 11/4/2015 8:25 PM, Doug Ross wrote: Thanks for the very informative and interesting discussion. Could the altitude, angle and distance from which a m

Re: [meteorite-list] Witness information that is more helpful than color

2015-11-05 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
information in a complete report. Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 11/4/2015 4:48 PM, Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list wrote: Hi John, I think there are definitely things that can be learned by looking at the spectrosc

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Bright Fireball Over Europe on Halloween Night

2015-11-04 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
mplex, so there's no simple correlation between these things and color that we can make much use of. Common groups of factors tend to lead to common colors, which is why we see specific colors with specific showers. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observ

Re: [meteorite-list] Very Bright Fireball Over Europe on Halloween Night

2015-11-04 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
ponents (often too subtly for people to report accurately), and that above all, it's almost impossible to make any assumptions about meteoroid composition from color. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 11/4/2015 5:21 A

Re: [meteorite-list] Did I Capture Bolide During SpaceX Launch?

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
Look closely at the full resolution video and you can see the meteor's wings flapping! Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/16/2015 10:48 PM, Stephen Thompson via Meteorite-list wrote: Nice catch !!..The motion,

Re: [meteorite-list] Science Journal: Earth's water didn't come from comets, scientists now say

2014-12-12 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
, and by extension for the terrestrial atmosphere." Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 12/12/2014 1:50 PM, Michael Mulgrew via Meteorite-list wrote: I am curious how such a definitive conclusion can be reached from the a

Re: [meteorite-list] Video of meteor smoke ring

2014-11-20 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
It's certainly real. That's a typical meteor train dissipation pattern. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 11/19/2014 7:17 PM, Robert Woolard via Meteorite-list wrote: List, One of our local radio stations posted

Re: [meteorite-list] CO WY Meteor Approx. 2230 MDT 02SEP2014 long duration/fragmentation

2014-09-03 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
I caught this nearly overhead from central Colorado on my camera. I believe it was probably the decaying COSMOS 2495 (Norad 39732). I should have two angles on it tomorrow confirming that this was not a meteor. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http

Re: [meteorite-list] Ohio man: Meteorite broke my Buick

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
Nope, I think not. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 5/27/2014 4:52 PM, Art Jones via Meteorite-list wrote: In the news from this am: An Ohio man believes a meteorite hit his car early Sunday morning. Joe Massa of

Re: [meteorite-list] List change

2014-05-09 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
If I click "Reply list" (which I'm using here) it just goes to the list email. No need to manually paste anything in. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 5/9/2014 7:09 AM, Peter Scherff via Meteorite-list wr

Re: [meteorite-list] Maximum theoretical Earth impact velocity

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Peterson
value). Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/14/2014 1:54 PM, Matson, Rob D. wrote: Hi Chris/Shawn/All, There is obviously something squirrely going on in that generated orbit. For one thing, look at the error bars on the vel

Re: [meteorite-list] HUGE Meteor Sighting in Cottonwood AZ - Stats from fall

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Peterson
odels demonstrate that it's not difficult for a small body to drop a few rocks on the ground without ever depositing the sort of energy into the atmosphere we associate with bright fireballs lasting several seconds and producing audible acoustics at ground level. Chris *****

Re: [meteorite-list] HUGE Meteor Sighting in Cottonwood AZ - Stats from fall

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Peterson
minal explosion or multiple fragmentation events along their paths warrant close examination as potential meteorite producers. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/13/2014 4:47 PM, Jim Wooddell wrote: Hi Shawn, This is a fairly n

Re: [meteorite-list] HUGE Meteor Sighting in Cottonwood AZ - Stats from fall

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Peterson
. Suffice to say, last night's meteor showed the characteristics of a low to medium speed parent body- something between 11 km/s and say 40 km/s. What is the source of the data you are using for your calculations? Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observ

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway Rock

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Peterson
; who understand the difference between disproving an theory and simply finding a much better one. Frankly, I think we're the ones with the best tuned BS filters. Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/10/2014 12:41 PM,

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway Rock

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Peterson
ections in the optics from the eyes of the deer. No such solid refutation has been produced for the Norway video. In fact, I haven't seen any refutation at all, only evidence for a much more likely scenario. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait O

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway Rock

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Peterson
remembering. If this had been trivially rejected from the beginning, no analysis would have been performed, and that would be unfortunate. And that's getting real. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/10/2014 11:

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway rock

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Peterson
than honest and reasonable- a video that accidentally captured something that might reasonably be interpreted as a falling meteorite. Even if some piece of evidence actually disproved that hypothesis, we should simply say that it was "disproved", not "debunked". Chris ****

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway rock

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Peterson
Seems pretty normal. While there's still at least a reasonable possibility of a meteorite, I'd expect a lot of chatter among people interested in meteorites. Once it's demonstrated that the meteorite explanation is extremely unlikely, people move on. What's left

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway rock

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Peterson
The hypothesis has not been debunked by NASA. I hardly think the parachutists are making things up. I just think they're a bit confused about how science works. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/9/2014 4:59 PM, Mi

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway rock

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Peterson
The apparent trajectory, size, shape, and albedo are all reasonable for a meteorite. More importantly, none of the physical parameters are inconsistent with a meteorite, so the hypothesis remains valid, simply very unlikely. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway rock

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Peterson
unwarranted. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/9/2014 4:23 PM, Michael Farmer wrote: Actually it seems NASA has debunked it and they parachutists themselves admit it is a stone from the parachute, which I said from moment one

Re: [meteorite-list] Fake Norway rock

2014-04-09 Thread Chris Peterson
omething trapped in the parachute, and given the odds against capturing an image of a falling meteorite, that's by far the most likely possibility. But a meteorite remains a possibility, although not a likely one. Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory

[meteorite-list] is it a meteorite

2014-04-07 Thread Chris
Suppose a fusion crusted stone is found shortly after a fireball. When examined it shows a celestial age of a few million years and a relatively short formation age. More examination shows it to be a stone formed on earth, ejected into space and returned here. Is it meteorite or a meteorwrong

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson
The jumper already has his shoot open. An expert diver with a high performance shoot could still be going very fast, of course, but in all likelihood there would be a pretty good delta-v in this case (it looks like his jumping partner sails past pretty quickly still in free fall). Chris

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson
Of course, as I said earlier, there are much more likely scenarios than a meteorite. I was just taking exception with any blind assertion that this was fake, absent clear evidence of such. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson
It certainly could be a hoax. If so, however, it's instructional, because it seems technically accurate. Most people trying to fake something like this would probably have flames and smoke coming off the object. That's what we typically see with fake

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson
Yes, although with his shoot deployed, he's probably traveling fairly slowly with respect to terminal velocity. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/3/2014 2:13 PM, Michael Mulgrew wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson
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 *** Chris L Peterson

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson
27;d think that between the front and back cameras, calculating a ground position could be done with pretty high accuracy. The area they were searching on the video seemed much too large. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/3/201

Re: [meteorite-list] Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite

2014-04-03 Thread Chris Peterson
ng", on nothing more than statistical uncertainty. Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/3/2014 9:51 AM, Michael Farmer wrote: Fake, absolutely mathematically impossible. More likely a small stone in his pack came out w

Re: [meteorite-list] Germany Swiss France Meteor 31MAR2014

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Peterson
plays a role as well. This makes meteor spectra very useful. But human color vision being what it is (our eyes being very poor spectrometers), it isn't possible to accurately determine meteoroid composition visually. Chris Chris L Peterson Clou

Re: [meteorite-list] friction or ram pressure?

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Peterson
cesses are operating. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 1/25/2014 7:54 AM, Francesco Moser wrote: Hi all! I have a question for you regarding falling stars and fireballs! Which is the physical process that heats a meteoro

Re: [meteorite-list] Colorado Fireball 12JAN2014

2014-01-13 Thread Chris Peterson
/data.php?recnum=61020 Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 1/12/2014 9:25 PM, drtanuki wrote: List, Colorado Fireball 12JAN2014 http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.jp/2014/01/colorado-meteor-12jan2014.html Dirk Ross...Tokyo

Re: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday Beni M'Hira !

2014-01-08 Thread Chris Peterson
ments. (Just something to think about; context is everything. ) Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] [off topic]: Does anyone know how to edit fonts?

2013-12-28 Thread Chris Peterson
installed as a component of Windows. You can select a font, copy individual existing characters, modify them, and save them to a new character code. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 12/27/2013 5:25 PM, Mendy Ouzillou wrote

Re: [meteorite-list] My first outreach to a 7th grade class is coming up

2013-11-08 Thread Chris Peterson
et invited back. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 11/8/2013 5:06 PM, Mendy Ouzillou wrote: Jacob, my 12 year old son, has a class called "Weird Science" and asked me to present to his class about meteorites. I w

Re: [meteorite-list] First Study of Chelyabinsk Meteorite

2013-11-07 Thread Chris Peterson
would have arrived at the ground above terminal velocity, and we'd treat it as a much more ordinary event. Nothing like a few craters to make a fall seem much more energetic than it actually was. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory

Re: [meteorite-list] Colorado Fireball 23OCT2013

2013-10-24 Thread Chris Peterson
This meteor was caught on two of our network cameras. Preliminary information is at http://www.cloudbait.com/science/fireball20131023.html Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 10/23/2013 10:26 PM, drtanuki wrote: List

Re: [meteorite-list] Different colors of meteors/shooting stars

2013-09-10 Thread Chris Peterson
x27;t stimulate our red sensors enough to show color. So we see a "red" nebula as "green". Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 9/10/2013 12:51 PM, Doug Ross wrote: Thank you for the explanation, Chris. I ha

Re: [meteorite-list] Different colors of meteors/shooting stars

2013-09-10 Thread Chris Peterson
the total luminous energy, which means they don't have much effect on the color ("color" being a physiological phenomenon, not a physical one). This isn't to say there might not be some cases where meteoroid composition is reflected in the color, but you can't

Re: [meteorite-list] California long duration meteor 22AUG2013

2013-08-25 Thread Chris Peterson
Duration is not a reliable way to distinguish between meteors and space junk. You can only do that using velocity, which is difficult to do from one vantage point. I've recorded re-entering debris that only glowed for a few seconds. Chris *** Chris L Pet

Re: [meteorite-list] [off-list] First Tunguska Meteorite Fragments Discovered

2013-05-02 Thread Chris Peterson
"Analyse" is a perfectly acceptable spelling, and is the standard way of spelling the word in British English. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 5/2/2013 10:46 AM, Adam Hupe wrote: Then there is also the puz

Re: [meteorite-list] Cassini Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

2013-04-25 Thread Chris Peterson
ically called a "meteor" (something the IAU is considering formalizing last I heard). Chris **** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com Michael Mulgrew wrote: >A "meteor" can't collide with anything! > &

Re: [meteorite-list] Significant digits

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Peterson
t the acceleration of gravity changes with height, and therefore the weight changes as well, since the mass is invariant (except for the little detail of ablation...) Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 4/9/2013 3:08 PM, Michael Mu

Re: [meteorite-list] Ureilite ablation

2013-03-31 Thread Chris Peterson
at much higher pressures than are present around a meteor. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/31/2013 4:56 PM, William Feek wrote: Hi All, Do the diamonds in Ureilites undergo ablation, and if so, what does the crust on them lo

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk - Not Hammers

2013-03-31 Thread Chris Spratt
So if they land on the Earth meteors become Meteorites, whether or not they hit anything besides the ground! I guess the one found on Mars is a Marseorite! Chris. Spratt Victoria, BC __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Galactic Analytics Announcement

2013-03-26 Thread Chris Peterson
Planetary Research Institute? Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/26/2013 2:21 PM, Marc Fries wrote: Howdy ladies and gents The scientists at Galactic Analytics have been working on a project behind the scenes

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Peterson
es place, and a good deal more is known about the body that exploded over Chelyabinsk. Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/25/2013 8:31 PM, Kelly Beatty wrote: Chris... It's extremely doubtful that this body coul

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Peterson
The time delay between the airburst and the shock arriving at the ground, directly beneath the burst, was about 90 seconds (not 11), making the height about 28 km. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/25/2013 10:31 PM, Don

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Peterson
esting scientific reasons for detecting bodies like this, there isn't much of a public safety case to be made. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/25/2013 8:10 PM, Michael Farmer wrote: I was just in Chelyabinsk, a cit

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk at White House today

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Peterson
and property from small asteroids is absurdly small compared to a large number of other things that we actually have some control over. Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/25/2013 3:15 PM, Michael Farmer wrote: Congratu

Re: [meteorite-list] unusual crystalline structure found in NWA --your thoughts please

2013-03-25 Thread Chris Spratt
Came across a similar one in an Allende Thin section (which I no longer have). See: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992JRASC..861R Chris. Spratt Victoria, BC __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing

Re: [meteorite-list] Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in FireballFragments

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Peterson
It it's suspended before it strikes, is it a "meteorite" or a "meteoroid"? Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/12/2013 8:59 AM, Galactic Stone & Ironworks wrote: All ancient life-beari

Re: [meteorite-list] If this can happen so can an asteroid hitting the Earth

2013-03-10 Thread Chris Peterson
miss. Bottom line, this isn't something worth worrying about. Chris ******* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/10/2013 4:19 PM, Don Merchant wrote: Hi List. Just wanted to post a thought. Here is a link of which a piece of Chinese spa

Re: [meteorite-list] Physics Questions (Having to Do, Theoretically, with Bolide Trajectories)

2013-03-06 Thread Chris Peterson
h the heavy components farther back along the meteor path than the light ones- not because they started that way, but because they were blown that way. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/6/2013 2:37 PM, Peter Richards wrote:

Re: [meteorite-list] ALTERNATIVE dealing with eBay Fraud! JASON, be carefull what you say about my meteorites on the Meteorite List, I am warning you...

2013-03-03 Thread Chris Spratt
the seller my opinion on his items in my very best "diplomatic language". I, for now, will wait until one of the dealers I know has some of this fall in stock, at a price I can afford, whether from a dealer's listing on EBay, or from

Re: [meteorite-list] 2012 DA14 Family?

2013-03-01 Thread Chris Peterson
-type, which I don't think is sufficient information to make any association to an existing potential parent asteroid. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/1/2013 8:59 AM, MEM wrote: Chris or Others? Has a family or pos

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroid/Asteroid Electro-Magnetic Disruption and Charge Properties?

2013-02-27 Thread Chris Peterson
use it was materially stronger, and because it didn't explode until it was much lower. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 2/27/2013 10:42 AM, Carl Agee wrote: Hi Chris, Do you have any references you could point me t

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroid/Asteroid Electro-Magnetic Disruption and Charge Properties?

2013-02-27 Thread Chris Peterson
ormation on possible material comes not from how the meteor breaks up, but from the deceleration profile and mass estimates. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 2/27/2013 11:52 AM, Pict wrote: Chris, Working on oil and gas we

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteoroid/Asteroid Electro-Magnetic Disruption and Charge Properties?

2013-02-27 Thread Chris Peterson
produce an impressive sonic wave, and probably further disrupts the meteoroid itself. I don't that there are any electrical forces of a significant size to affect the structure or motion of the meteoroid, although atmospheric electrical effects probably occur (e.g. electroph

Re: [meteorite-list] Minor Planet families

2013-02-26 Thread Chris Peterson
ases do we have a recovered orbit for a meteorite fall, allowing for the possibility of recognizing the parent body's orbital classification as well. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 2/26/2013 4:26 AM, lebof...@lpl.ar

Re: [meteorite-list] two fireballs

2013-02-25 Thread Chris Peterson
, lens distortion, and various sensor artifacts. It's hard to actually locate the center of the meteor from such data. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 2/25/2013 5:56 PM, Steve Dunklee wrote: http://www.youtube.com/

Re: [meteorite-list] Dark mass in front of Cherbakul bolide + raining meteorites

2013-02-23 Thread Chris Peterson
g are the product of various artifacts, both visual and photographic. Also possible are atmospheric effects related to the supersonic shockwave or compression zone. But not a physical body, I think. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbai

Re: [meteorite-list] 2012 DA14 / Russian meteor yada yada

2013-02-17 Thread Chris Peterson
ginal orbit of the body is unambiguously determinable. We can always say with near complete certainty whether a given meteor is associated with a particular body, and with absolute certainty when it is not. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory

Re: [meteorite-list] 2012 DA14 and the Russian meteor: a strong link

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Peterson
I'm surprised you're interested in meteorites, since you clearly lack even the most basic understanding of meteor radiants- and clearly are unwilling to learn from people who actually know something. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observ

Re: [meteorite-list] Chelyabinsk: of contrails, bollides and IR

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Peterson
n the vast majority of cases, the height of disruption is above 30 km, but the actual point depends on the total mass, composition, and structure of the meteoroid. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 2/16/2013 8:27 PM, E.P. Gro

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian meteor composition

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Spratt
If the object was a Carbonaceous type or a small comet there may not be much to find of anything. Tagish Lake fell on the ice but if it had fallen through what would be left to find? Chris. Spratt __ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] Russia mega meteor and asteroid 2012DA14 related, yes I think so...

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Spratt
The posted orbit for the Russian meteor doesn't resemble in any way 2012 DA14. There is a difference of 7 degrees in the inclination alone - about 4 degrees for the meteor and 2012 DA's inclination is 11.6 degrees. Both the Node and Arg Peri are also different. Chris. Spratt Vi

Re: [meteorite-list] Russia mega meteor and asteroid 2012DA14 related, yes I think so...

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Peterson
there seems to be no reasonable or likely scenario that could explain these bodies being related. But the odds of two such bodies being where they were at that time are not particularly long at all. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com

Re: [meteorite-list] Russia mega meteor and asteroid 2012DA14 related, yes I think so...

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Peterson
them to deviate so much in their orbits- meaning that it would still be a coincidence that they arrived at the same time. There is no reasonable or likely mechanism for a body to split and produce products with radically different orbits. Chris *** Chris L Peterson

Re: [meteorite-list] Russia mega meteor and asteroid 2012DA14 related, yes I think so...

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Peterson
y nut, knock yourself out (as well as your so-called anonymous "expert"). These events were unrelated. That is as certain as anything can be. Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 2/16/2013 12:04 PM, Bjorn Sorheim wro

Re: [meteorite-list] Russian missile

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Peterson
My goodness. What is it about a meteor that brings so many crazies out of the woodwork? Chris *** Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 2/16/2013 6:41 AM, noakes wrote: What's wrong with this picture. Sonic booms (multiple) , clo

Re: [meteorite-list] Russia mega meteor and asteroid 2012DA14 related, yes I think so...

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Peterson
would require first separating them, and then subjecting each to a different history of three-body interactions. If the "foremost" celestial mechanics expert in your country says the two are similar, he is not competent. I don't notice him speaking out. Chris ***

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