(meteorobs) Fireball for Western Australia

[Hunter, Robert]

Excellent point; ten seconds.  I saw it on "Sunday Morning" also, and unless the film had been slowed (which I doubt), this thing was moving too slowly to be a meteor.  It was probably something orbital that was re-entering.  Something LARGE.

What's the slowest velocity for any meteor shower?  For how long can they be illuminated? (If they're entering at a very shallow angle, clearly they could be illuminated for a longer period of time.)

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Sent: Sun 12/4/2005 9:12 AM
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fireball for Western Australia
 
In a message dated 12/4/05 12:31:35 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
david.entwistle at dial.pipex.com writes:

> There's more at the Sunday Times. Sounds impressive...

Charles Osgood just showed the video of this meteor as seen from Perth on his 
weekly CBS "Sunday Morning" show.  In fact . . . he showed a good ten seconds 
of it; just silence, no commentary.  When the camera came back to him, he had 
a look on his face like "Wow . . . wasn't that something?"

I was impressed!   :)
-- joe rao
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