(meteorobs) Re: [IMO-News] 2004 MN4 and possibile meteorites shower

[Christian Steyaert]

Saw on meteorobs mention of Vgeo 5.8 km/s.

A matter of definition (see 
http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg12769.html), but the atmospheric speed 
is 12.6 km/s



         Chris





At 10:58 06/02/2005 +0100, Roberto G. wrote:

>Sorry for the bad English
>
>In http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news149.html
>
>it's wrote that the asteroid 2004 MN4
>shall be at a minimum distance of 30,000 Km
>from the Earth surface the April 13th 2029,
>with a magnitude of 3,3a!
>
>There are, near certainly a cloud of very
>little fragments around it (in orbit or in
>the same orbit) then it's possible that around
>the April 13th it shall be a bolid shower
>and too, because the asteroid it's not a
>ice ball but a rocky body, a meteorites
>shower: a meteorites shower in the form
>of fall of meteorites in one hemisphere,
>each meteorite with all the phaenomena that
>we see in a meteorite fall (bolid, fragmentation,
>sounds, etc.).
>Do I read so much sciencefiction books or
>this scenario can to be real?
>Roberto Gorelli