(meteorobs) Alleged Picture of "Meteorite Photographed Hitting Earth"

[Robert Verish]

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[meteorite-list] Alleged Picture of "Meteorite
Photographed Hitting Earth"
Paul H bristolia at yahoo.com 
Wed Nov 24 20:29:28 EST 2004 

In the thread "Meteorite Photographed Hitting The 
Earth in Australia?" at:
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2004-November/146190.html
,
Mike Groetz asked:

>Good Afternoon- If someone finds a link to 
>the photo - would you please post it?

For whatever a person might think it is worth, the
picture can found at:

Meteorite 'photographed' hitting Earth
By Nigel Adlam, news.com.au, November 24, 2004
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11483286%255E13762,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,3600,398650,00.jpg

Yours,

Paul
Baton Rouge, LA>

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[meteorite-list] Alleged Picture of "Meteorite
PhotographedHittingEarth"
Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu 
Wed Nov 24 21:17:03 EST 2004 


You're right. It would have been falling nearly
vertically, subject only to some drift from the wind.
If it had still been traveling at 30,000 mph as the
article suggests, it would have been way bigger; 
a huge fireball, sonic booms, all sorts of stuff like
that, which would hardly have gone unnoticed.
And a typical fall, which of course could have been
captured on a camera, isn't going to produce an
explosion when it hits. I guess the light bulb might
have burst, creating something like an explosion.
Still, there are just too many things about this story
that are problematic.

Chris

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