[meteorite-list] Lake Ontario event

I re-calculated the 19 Nov 2022 Lake Ontario meteorite fall. Most of the meteorites landed in the lake, in shallow water reportedly less than ~70' deep. Some meteorites up to 230g are seen landing off of Vineland Station but larger masses almost certainly fell down-track as well. https://ares

[meteorite-list] Meteorite fall New Jersey 08 May 2023

Howdy all There was a meteorite fall yesterday afternoon in New Jersey, with one meteorite falling through a house. Radar indicates this was a larger fall than just a single stone, although overall mass is fairly low. I am working on the data now, but am updating the NASA Meteor

[meteorite-list] Debris de-orbit

A SpaceX Dragon trunk re-entered over AZ, NM, CO last night. Radar indicates large pieces reached the ground in CO and perhaps elsewhere. I'll have an update on NASA Meteorite Falls later today. Cheers, Marc Fries __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteo

[meteorite-list] New meteorite fall in Maine

Howdy all There was a noontime bolide over eastern Maine this past Saturday which produced a meteorite fall. There was only one NEXRAD radar in range of this event but it appears in four radar sweeps, complete with short-range turbulence from falling rocks. Details can be found here:

[meteorite-list] New meteorite fall outside McAllen, TX 15 Feb 2023

Greetings all Radar, GLM, eyewitness, and other data indicate a voluminous new meteorite fall outside of McAllen, TX yesterday afternoon. I will post images and a strewn field map ASAP on the ARES Meteorite Falls web page. https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/

[meteorite-list] Muskogee kmz

I have finished calculating the landing sites for all of the radar signatures in the Muskogee fall, and they produced a nicely defined strewn field. I cannot post the Google Earth kmz on the NASA website just because there is no file-sharing mechanism there. Feel free to email me at this addres

[meteorite-list] Strewn field for Muskogee

The strewn field is now published for the Muskogee event. This was created using the newest version of Jormungandr which is still in mid-validation, so I may update it. Even if so it shouldn't change much. Evidence suggests large meteorites fell near the airport, in the 100g range. https://ar

[meteorite-list] High-certainty meteorite fall on Muskogee, OK

Greetings It appears that this event on AMS resulted in a meteorite fall: https://ams.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2023/374 The event occurred at 03:38:50 AM local time on 20 January 2023, or 0938:50 UTC. It appears in GLM data and in data from four separate NEXRAD

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall - Grimsby Ontario 19 Nov 2022

Yes that same Grimsby. They get a new meteorite fall for 2022. Don't get mad at me, I just report these things! Web page is up at: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/ I am also posting tweets under my own account. Find it by searching for Marc Fries, @WarrantyViolatr Be advised that

[meteorite-list] Georgia Meteorite Fall 26 Sep 2022

Howdy A new meteorite fall occurred on 26 Sep 2022 UTC east of Junction City, GA. Meteorites have been recovered from this event. Details can be found at: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/ Cheers, Marc Fries -- HISTORICAL AMERIC

[meteorite-list] Update on 24 Aug 2022 Colorado event

I have posted a NASA page for the recent Colorado event: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/coalmont-co This is a POSSIBLE meteorite fall. It only produced one radar signature but I am including it because the signature is fairly strong and features short-range turbulence. Havin

[meteorite-list] Interesting radar signature - Colorado bolide, AMS event 5337

Howdy I've found something interesting in radar data from the 24 Aug event over Colorado and would like to ask for input. All radar observations of this event were from moderate to long range as the relatively nearby Cheyenne radar was down. The Front Range (KFTG) radar shows a

[meteorite-list] Great Salt Lake meteorite fall, 13 Aug 2022

After a series of computer-based misadventures, I have (finally) posted a NASA Meteorite Falls page for the Salt Lake City meteorite fall: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/ To date more than a dozen meteorites have been recovered. To the best of my knowledge they were all on the weste

[meteorite-list] Much-delayed notice of UT meteorite fall

I have been on international travel for almost two weeks, and the loaner computer I was using "bricked". I've been without a computer or email for almost two weeks as a result. On 15 August I sent an email to the List from my phone to try to get the word out, but that apparently didn't work.

[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall observed - Natchez MS 27 April 2022

A remarkable meteorite fall has occurred east of Natchez MS. This event was widely reported in media because loud sonic booms were reported over a wide area. This was a daytime fireball and a single video (as far as I know) has emerged on Twitter. Weather radar records a nearly vertical colum

[meteorite-list] Notice of meteorite FALL 27 Apr 2022

A significant meteorite fall has occurred outside Natchez, MS yesterday at 8AM local time. Detailed strewn field to follow soon. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-l

[meteorite-list] Fredricksburg TX event 29 Jan 2022

Howdy all We've had a bunch of fireballs with dozens of AMS eyewitness reports over the last couple of months. In going back over them I found a really nice one that escaped my notice: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2022/740 The videos of th

[meteorite-list] Update: Meteorite Fall outside Patch Grove WI 20 Jan 2022

Howdy all After parsing through some more data I've convinced myself that there was a (probably small) meteorite fall near Patch Grove, WI on 20 January. NASA Meteor Watch (look them up on Facebook) reports that this fireball was very slow-moving, near the lower limit of infall v

[meteorite-list] Possible meteorite fall, WI 20 Jan 2022

Howdy all AMS' meteor event 512 may have produced a fall, as there is an interesting radar signature that matches in time and place: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2022/512 The bolide was traveling from NE to SW according to AMS. I've found

Re: [meteorite-list] NJ 13 Nov 2021 bolide - possible FALL

Quick update... https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/cape-may-courthouse-nj __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list

Re: [meteorite-list] NJ 13 Nov 2021 bolide - possible FALL

I forgot to mention - the radar signatures appear over land, just north of Cape May, NJ. There isn't a lot of land there, but this is a special event that merits extra effort. More soon. -Original Message- From: Fries, Marc D. (JSC-XI211) Sent: Monday, November 15, 2021 1:11

[meteorite-list] NJ 13 Nov 2021 bolide - possible FALL

Howdy all I have found some interesting radar returns associated with the New Jersey daytime bolide on 13 Nov 2021. I am sending this email as advance notice that more information is coming, and to give as much time as possible for others to start looking into the data. This is AMS ev

Re: [meteorite-list] [EXTERNAL] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 229, Issue 17

Howdy all Re: the 16 Oct 2021 daytime fireball seen in video from Tucson. On further examination, the expanding-ring feature on radar appears to be birds leaving their roosts at daybreak, and it is just a coincidence that it appears in the same 10-minute GLM exposure as the bolide.

[meteorite-list] Daytime fireball 16 Oct 2021

There was a daytime bolide over the AZ/NM/Mexico area this morning (16 Oct 2021) at 1323 UTC which may have generated a meteorite fall. The American Meteor Society is reporting it here: https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/6611 At the time of this writing, the AMS is rep

[meteorite-list] Washington SpaceX fall event

I've posted some data on the Washington debris fall from last 26 March. Radar signatures from this event persist for about two hours after the event, and some early-arriving signatures appear to be massive objects. The strewn field lies along a line which covers most of the state and appears a

Re: [meteorite-list] [EXTERNAL] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 222, Issue 24

AMS reports four significant fireballs over the weekend: https://amsmeteors.org/2021/03/four-fireballs-spotted-during-the-week-end/ I checked the three stateside events on NEXRAD radar and couldn't find anything convincing. The Pennsylvania one does show up in GLM imagery, in the GOES-16 sate

[meteorite-list] Vermont event

Try as I might, I can't find radar signatures to go with the recent event in Vermont. Has anyone had any luck with it? Cheers, Marc Fries __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-li

[meteorite-list] Fun new paper on finding meteorites with drones

Presumably of interest... https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10./maps.13593 __ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com ___

Re: [meteorite-list] [EXTERNAL] Re: Galactic Analytics content?

now. It looks like this is going to work well. If any new falls occur between now and then, well I'm working on that. I'll find a way to disseminate that information. Cheers, Marc From: Swan Valley Bushcraft Sent: Monday, January 11, 2021 11:14 AM To: Fries, Marc D. (J

[meteorite-list] Galactic Analytics content?

Howdy all For the past several years I've run Galactic Analytics on Facebook. It has been a freely available forum to discuss meteors and meteorite falls, and a convenient site for me to disseminate radar data showing potential meteorite falls. When I started this, Facebook was

[meteorite-list] Daylight fireball, TX-OK 18 Apr 2017

Howdy all There is a recent event in the AMS logs for a ~1 PM fireball. This event seems to have passed directly over DFW headed NE. It looks to me like the ground track was rather long, as reports from DFW spotted the fireball both SW and NE of DFW. http://www.amsmeteors.org

[meteorite-list] Request for assistance

Howdy ladies and gents I am working with summer intern Colleen Laird from Case Western Reserve U. to develop mathematical tools for quantifying meteorite falls from radar data. Colleen has made superb progress and we should soon be able to offer estimates for the total mass that falls in

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 159, Issue 18

I can always tell when y¹all are up to something. The list becomes really, really quietŠ Heheh. Good luck, Marc On 5/18/16, 12:26 AM, "Meteorite-list on behalf of meteorite-list-requ...@meteoritecentral.com" wrote: >Send Meteorite-list mailing list submissions to > meteorite-list@meteo

[meteorite-list] Utah meteor

Found the pic! Dale Romero knew of it - turns out spaceweather.com ran it as a Pic of the Day in November of 2009: http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=19&month=11&year=2009 Thank you all for the replies! Cheers, Marc Fries __ Visit our F

[meteorite-list] Salt Lake City fireball images?

Howdy all Back on 18 Nov 2009 there was a huge bolide over Salt Lake City, UT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFejgd9bSE The following morning, locals reported seeing high-altitude dust lingering over the city. At the time I figured it was a coincidence, but in retrospect I th

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

I don¹t think it is a bolide, because at 1:07 something goes from right to left in the same area, coming from off-frame to the right. I think you¹re looking at something making a loop; a bird, nearby bug, or perhaps a drone. Still, I¹ll look at the radar imagery and see if anything shows up. Do

Re: [meteorite-list] Huh? PhD has a Meteor? over Houston, TX?

Theoretically, sure; a bolide could skip out of the atmosphere and return on a second pass. Or at least I¹ve been told this by people who¹ve spent more time on it than myself and I tend to believe them. But in that case, ³slow moving² is not an option. You would need a very fast-moving, massive o

Re: [meteorite-list] Huh? PhD has a Meteor? over Houston, TX?

I concur; airplane contrail. If I wanted to, I could point out how close they are to a NASA center that hosts experts on the subjectŠ Nah. Cheers, Marc Fries > >-- > >Message: 3 >Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:25:14 + (UTC) >From: drtanuki >To: Meteorite-list >Subje

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 138, Issue 15

True! Sorry; what I meant to say was that there are no eyewitness reports -=of an actual meteor=-. Unless I¹ve missed something, this is true for all eyewitness reporting sites. Cheers, Marc Fries On 10/15/14, 10:10 AM, "drtanuki" wrote: >Marc, Thanks! Mystery plot continues > BTW, the A

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 138, Issue 15

Howdy, all I¹ve examined this event and I don¹t agree that this feature is a debris cloud. It is visible in radar imagery about 15 minutes prior to the eyewitness accounts of sonic booms. It is also missing some of the diagnostic features of a meteorite fall, namely internal turbulence th

Re: [meteorite-list] Wisconsin Meteorite Hunt.

I was wondering if this was going to turn up on the mailing list or not... We arrived at this property, obtained permission from the landowners to search it, and were approached by this gent who was upset because he was there before us. It doesn't work that way, and in any case it's up to the

[meteorite-list] Wisconsin

Howdy all I've returned to my "day job" from a trip to the WI strewn field. I arrived with my boots worn in, and left with my boots worn out! Even though I left without finding a stone, I had a magnificent time and would gladly do it all again. I got to participate as other mem

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: article about meteorite west of Mineral point

Radar shows it much bigger than eight miles; I put it at 14x11 miles at a minimum. This one made a mess! Cheers, Marc Fries On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Jeff Kuyken wrote: > Hi all, > > Mike Farmer asked me to forward this to the list regarding the stone > "West > of Mineral Point". > > Che

Re: [meteorite-list] Elemantary School Boy Finds Meteorite in his schoolyard!!

I love that idea! I like how it emphasizes some of the best attributes of meteorite hunting - public outreach and just plain getting people excited about this stuff. Solves the problem of multiple Livingstons as well. Cheers, Marc Fries On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Darryl Pitt wrote:

Re: [meteorite-list] More backstory on the schoolyard find

Those kids will never forget this. Magnificent stuff! Cheers, Marc Fries On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richard Kowalski wrote: > Mike asked me to post this. If the link below does not work, it is > the same one I posted in my earlier message > > -- > Richard Kowalski > Full Moon Photography

Re: [meteorite-list] Livingston, WI fall

My take on the radar data includes a generally NW to SE track. This event shows up on three different radars! Magnificent stuff. Cheers, MDF On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:12 PM, wrote: > Looks like WNW to ESE. This camera is pointing nearly directly west > at the lakefront in Milwaukee. (Build

Re: [meteorite-list] 7 States Fireball Smoke Trail On Doppler

Heheh Funny how fast the NWS guys jumped on this! You can probably thank the Meteorite Men episode for it, in all honesty. Outstanding! On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:25 AM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote: > For what it's worth, they caught the smoke trail on Doppler. > > http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/di

Re: [meteorite-list] PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF CHONDRITES -STUDYING METEORITE FALLS USING. DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR

Howdy I'm glad y'all are enjoying the abstract. I've been looking forward to that one, and I'm actually working on the poster to go with it as I sit here. I'll add another one to Rob's list - Portales Valley shows up in data from multiple radars, although they are all at extended range and sh

Re: [meteorite-list] Lovina Iron

What a beautiful meteorite! My first take on it is that it must have crystallized directly from a melt. The pyramidal forms looks like dendrites complete with a preferred orientation. Dendrites do not form in solids like Widmannstatten patterns do ­ they form by solidification from a liquid. I

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball over Tucson 2-16-2010 7:28pm

First off, I¹m back! We had a very successful ANSMET season this year and collected 1010 meteorites (with probably a few terrestrials in there). The weather was spectacular and allowed us to put about 750 miles on our snowmobiles while searching. As for this meteor ­ I¹ve pulled the radar data b

Re: [meteorite-list] Biophysicist confirms Liberal boy's meteorite discovery

That hole has definitely been dug up. But it also doesn¹t appear to be a foot deep. Perhaps in a 10 year old¹s imagination it is. I just ran the numbers, and if we assume a spherical body (which I have to do) moving at its aerodynamically-limited speed then a 48 g iron meteorite would be moving

[meteorite-list] New fall with radar signature - up for grabs!

This one appears to have produced a strewn field approximately 20-25 km in length with a very prominent smoke trail. First one there can have it! 36.7990 N ­122.8979 W And it looked like this (scroll down to ³sunset fireball²): http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=10&month=11&year

Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: Grimsby, Ontario bolide info

Well ain¹t that a hoot - I sent him the same images a couple of weeks ago. I even used the same background image! Peter Brown probably thinks we're a single person with multiple personalities or something. I'd say there's a potential return in the next data set at about 2.5 km altitude, but it is

Re: [meteorite-list] A Rare Arizona Meteorite Find plus a "NEW" New Mexico strewnfield

Fantastic stuff! Looks like Hopper has bestowed you with some serious luck. Buy that dog some steak! Cheers, MDF On 10/5/09 3:34 PM, "Ruben Garcia" wrote: > I forgot to mention that my rare find was (it's cut now) a complete > stone weighing 157 grams. It has large olivine on the exterior (up

Re: [meteorite-list] Nickel tests

I've also had mixed results with the nickel allergy kit, but I think I've figured out how to get reasonably reliable results. I think the problem is that the companies who make these things probably have liability lawyers telling them to err on the side of false positives (which won't really cause

Re: [meteorite-list] Block Island

You¹d first have to convince me that, in the entire span of time that this rock sat exposed on the surface, the winds were never (even once) strong enough to move them along sufficiently to leave them on top of the rock. Bear in mind that the entire surrounding terrain is covered with wind-blown du

Re: [meteorite-list] Block Island

Yup. And how does one form such a thing...? And is it "twisted", or did something else happen here? Think "Imilac"... On 8/20/09 9:46 AM, "Darren Garrison" wrote: > Look at this close up, especially at the shadows. Lots of jagged slivers of > twisted metal! > > http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/

Re: [meteorite-list] Mike Farmer Eats Moon & Mars Rocks!

The gent who wrote the Red Mars trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson, wrote a short appendix to one of the books in the series. The details are a little sketchy to me now (been a while since I read them), but if I recall correctly the appendix was titled, ³The First Recorded Instance of Aerophagy² and wa

Re: [meteorite-list] Question Martian in 3-D

I've been wondering if someone would ask that...Kinda looks like Imilac, eh? On 8/7/09 9:54 AM, "cdtuc...@cox.net" wrote: > Pete, List, > Very interesting photo. > I have a question about it's morphology? > Why does it look like that? Why does it have so many holes / dents? > Given the a

Re: [meteorite-list] Stupid rhymes do not make it OK!

Magnificent! Tho it does make me glad there isn¹t a Nantucket meteorite. > > -- > From: "Sterling K. Webb" > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:43 PM > To: ; > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Stupid rhymes do not make it OK! > >> The limerick packs

Re: [meteorite-list] Late Entry

Science pokes at its rocks from the sky And measures them nice clean and dry But they fell in the dirt Got wiped with a shirt And now our jollies are all from fungi Heh heh heh Call it ³An ode to examining Murchison and Allende as opposed to Antarctics² ;-) Cheers, MDF On 7/22/09 4:09 PM, "Me

Re: [meteorite-list] PA fall media hype

Okay, now let me see if I've got this straight... You're sitting there rubbing your hands in glee and cackling over your own private pile of freshly-fallen stones, saying that the key to recovering as many meteorites as possible is to get the public involved... I can't agree more! How 'bout som

Re: [meteorite-list] How far away can a meteor be heard?

That¹s a good question. There's one major difference between a meteor-produced sonic boom and thunder - altitude. Most thunderstorms occur below 10 km altitude while fireballs occur well up in the 20-30 km range. That means that the fireball should propagate to a wider area, but it seems in pract

Re: [meteorite-list] - "witness" to July 6 Fireball PA

Speaking of debris a lot > of dust is generated in these trails that settles to the ground after the > event so someone please remember to sample the surfaces of felled trees, > gutter spouts, etc. looking for micrometeorite spheres. I second the motion. In the event that no meteorites turn up,

[meteorite-list] FW: Seismic Data search for 6JUL09 meteor

So we¹ve got folks looking over the seismic data, an astronomer¹s take on the still photo, a nice .kmz by Elton... This is turning into a real ³stone soup² fireball event. I¹m diggin¹ it. Cheers, Marc Fries On 7/9/09 11:08 AM, "Kelly Beatty" wrote: > folks... > > my take: this putative fa

Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Boy?

Wow. This has gone from a side trip to WTFia to a full-blown start-forwarding-the-mail experience. The behavior of the media doesn't surprise me in the slightest, but up until now I thought the Bad Astronomy guy was using that name in jest. Thanks for the update. On 6/16/09 12:47 PM, "JoshuaT

Re: [meteorite-list] (no subject)

Wow - you really are new to the list! ;-) some of you might have a shot at becoming > stand-up comedians if you ever want to change professions.  The repartee and > camaraderie are delightful.  A __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mail

Re: [meteorite-list] Military intelligence-- still an oxymoron.

Yeah, I saw this article. For some reason the press tends to go extra-special whenever they report on military matters. My favorite part is this: >> >> The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are >> now classified. Yeah, that's it. You're not allowed to know that meteors exist

[meteorite-list] Postdoctoral position in Antarctic meteorite research

arvey Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:08:51 -0700 To: "Fries, Marc D" Subject: Re: Answer Here's the ad Postdoctoral Position: Antarctic Meteorite Recovery and Planetary Research The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program at Case Western Reserve University is seekin

Re: [meteorite-list] NEW Ocate, NM Iron Classification & Specimens - AD

Rats; 1986 is outside the window for retrieving archived weather radar data. I'd LOVE to see what an iron meteorite fall "looks like" on radar! Congrats on a magnificent new meteorite! Cheers, MDF On 5/26/09 4:27 PM, "Ruben Garcia" wrote: > > > Wow Greg, > That's a cool meteorite!!  I wish

Re: [meteorite-list] NASA scientist begins search for Merced, California meteorite

Try again; this time without html... To all the folks who've already been looking for this potential fall, sorry about the "begins the search" thing. I'm certain that I mentioned to the journo that others had been looking for it, but that part didn't make it into print. Cheers, MDF >> >> On

Re: [meteorite-list] Black Diamonds: A interesting PBS NOVA article

rald > http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10627/ > in his story "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz" > (1922). > > > > Sterling K. Webb > --- > - Original Message - > From: "Fries,

Re: [meteorite-list] Black Diamonds: A interesting PBS NOVA article

Wish I¹d seen this one when it came out; I¹d have gladly written a rebuttal paper. Not quite sure how they can claim there is a "complete absence of a deep Earth fingerprint", especially since they point out the low delta-C13 values in carbonadoes themselves. The same range of values is seen in r

Re: [meteorite-list] Neither Carbonado Nor Meteorite

A carbonado with fusion crust? My skepticism meter is pegged. If true it would be of extraordinary scientific interest, but the problem is that diamond doesn¹t melt. It evaporates. Silicates are content to form what is basically a liquid silicon oxide, but carbon oxides (CO, CO2) are gases, not

Re: [meteorite-list] Note to anyone searching for the VA Beach fireball

Should read "...from the southwest..." > > ground on the southern tip of the Delmarva peninsula with the help of strong > winds from the southeast, and even if all the sizable pieces turn out to be __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mail

[meteorite-list] Note to anyone searching for the VA Beach fireball

Howdy all I haven¹t heard from anyone searching for meteorites from the Virginia Beach fireball from last week, so I¹ll post this for general consumption. If anyone is there, could you collect samples of meteorite particles for analysis? By that I mean covering a magnet with Saran Wrap (or it

[meteorite-list] West strewn field

Howdy, all I lost track of who was producing the strewn field map for the West fall, so I need to send this out to everyone. Any word on when that map will be available? It would be very helpful to compare it to the radar data and start work on a method of predicting strewn fields from radar

Re: [meteorite-list] Radar signatures associated with the VA Beach Fireball, 29 Mar 09

That's supposed to be NNE, not NEN. SSE instead of SES, too. duh On 4/1/09 11:40 AM, "Fries, Marc D" wrote: > Howdy ladies and gents > > I have looked over the radar data from the VA Beach fireball this past > Sunday (I¹m calling it VA Beach because that was

[meteorite-list] Radar signatures associated with the VA Beach Fireball, 29 Mar 09

Howdy ladies and gents I have looked over the radar data from the VA Beach fireball this past Sunday (I¹m calling it VA Beach because that was the location of the closest eyewitness). I believe there is a consistent debris trail in the data. This track in the data evolves over a forty minute

[meteorite-list] High winds aloft during east coast fireball last night

Howdy all My brother and I did a preliminary assessment of weather and radar associated with the fireball yesterday evening, and things look grim for the home team. The jet stream was directly over Norfolk with 100-120 kt (185-225 km/hr) winds out of the SW. Dominant lower level winds were

Re: [meteorite-list] Fireballs From The Sky: Bombarded

I can quit worrying about getting thwacked by Uranus, then. phew On 3/30/09 9:42 AM, "Greg Redfern" wrote: > The VA-MD sighting is now being classified as the spent Russian Expedition 19 > booster: http://wtop.com/?nid=25=1636442 > . > > All the best, >

[meteorite-list] Fireball and booms reported - Dorchester County, Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border

Cripes... So count with me, since 01 Jan: Denmark, West TX, Kentucky, Westchester NY, Zimbabwe, Augusta GA, Sacramento CA... This is apparently building up towards getting thwacked by Uranus around Halloween. Gotta love the North Korean refrigerator comment in here, too... Cheers, MDF http:

Re: [meteorite-list] Dam Hammer

My two cents, Ocause what the hell, eh? We¹re up to several dollars by now. Call whatever you want a hammer, because I don¹t think anyone will ever agree on a ³lower cut-off level of importance² for a hammer-worthy target. Just include a description of whatever the ³hammer² hit, and let the buyer

[meteorite-list] FW: Meteorite over Denmark Jan 17 has been found

/92-technology/44478-weekend-meteor-very-u nusual.html Cheers, MDF -- Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:07:19 -0700 To: "Fries, Marc D" Subject: Meteorite over Denmark Jan 17 has been found Hey You, FYI: The meteorite that fell over DK on Jan 17, and that was witness

Re: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in Cottonwood

Whatever hit it looks (to me) like it fragmented completely when it hit the windshield. The dashboard doesn¹t have one deep gouge in it like a solid object would inflict; it has a shotgun-spray of spallation damage. Whatever hit the thing wound up as tiny pieces scattered around inside the car.

Re: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in Cottonwood

Eh... This happened 26 Feb, but didn¹t become a news item until the $10k offer. Danger, Will Robinson... And that debris looks like part of the car dashboard or something to me. Man-made, anyways. On 3/12/09 9:06 AM, "Eric Wichman" wrote: > What?! A meteorite or space debris? > > "..A mete

[meteorite-list] FW: Doppler radar signature from bolides

Bear in mind that you only find the big rocks when you walk a strewn field. Meteors routinely produce clouds of falling sand-grain-sized (or smaller) debris. Much of this is in the form of metallic or metal-oxide spherules ­ great radar reflectors! Cheers, MDF On 3/11/09 10:57 AM, "E.P. Grondi

[meteorite-list] FW: NEW YORK FIREBALL / Acknowledgement & Gratitude

I¹m flattered; thank you. For those of y¹all who¹ve asked me about the Westchester fall, I am still working through some ambiguity in the data. I will send an image to those who already asked - anyone else can email me off-list and I¹m happy to share the radar image from that meteor. Its locati

[meteorite-list] Westchester co, NY fireball - 07 Mar 09

If anyone is planning on visiting this meteor sighting site, please drop me an email. I do not want to go, but I have some information. __ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairli

[meteorite-list] Well okay then

Howdy all I¹ve received a few ...em... ³spirited² responses to my last email that tell me that it didn¹t exactly read the way I intended. I wasn¹t trying to be a hero because I bought a plane ticket, I was trying to say that traveling on ³your own dime² isn¹t what scientists are used to doing

Re: [meteorite-list] West Meteorite tally, PLEASE let's get this one right

This scientist could only make it there for one and a half days, on my own dime, and would have loved to stay. A downside of our profession is that most of us have to account for our (fairly pricey) time and don¹t have much in the way of flexibility. I¹m very interested in seeing the tally from t