(meteorobs) Fw: Disintegrating meteor photos

[astrongeo]

I just joined the list to see the discussion about this case.

I'm a bit in doubt about what is seen here.
I know this person and he has a solid astronomy background.
So a cigarette and deliberate fake it is shurely not!

And Jack Drummond, at Starfire Optical Range, AFRL has commented on 
the image and says with 99.9% probability it's a meteor!
How can he come to this conclusion, while you ends up with the 
opposite conclusion?

On the other hand could it be fireworks, or something similar?

Bjørn Sørheim


--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Ed Majden <epmajden at s...> wrote:
> on 3/6/05 6:30, GeoZay at a... at GeoZay at a... wrote:
> 
> > 
> > lunsford>>Gary and I received the following message. I invite 
you  to visit
> > the web 
> > site below and then posting your  thoughts.<<
> > 
> > 
> > I don't know what it is, but it doesn't look like a meteor to 
me. The
> > "train" doesn't have the snake look to it, especially with just 
a two second
> > exposure. It looks more like cigarette smoke or something 
similar.
> > George Zay
> > 
>     I agree with George in this case.  It does look like the end 
of a
> cigarette butt complete with smoke.  I have recorded several zero 
order
> meteor images with a video image intensified spectrograph and none 
have this
> appearance.  For a smoke trail to have this appearance it would 
have been
> subject to high altitude winds which would take time to do this, 
not the two
> seconds claimed in this exposure.  I'm sure Sirko Molau and his 
video meteor
> group can verify this.
> 
> Ed Majden
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