(meteorobs) Fw: Disintegrating meteor photos

GeoZay at aol.com GeoZay at aol.com
Mon Mar 7 16:29:52 EST 2005


 

>>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!<<
 
Maybe so...but I doubt the image is that of a meteor.

>>And  Jack Drummond, at Starfire Optical Range, AFRL has commented on 
the image  and says with 99.9% probability it's a meteor!<<
 
Jack may think that, but the image doesn't look like any meteor photograph  
I've ever seen...plus it doesn't make sense. You have a 2 second exposure where 
 the "meteor" is far separated from the train. The meteor should have burned 
it's  image thru any train in formation, but it's not. After all, the train is 
 the path of the meteor. They both supposed to have formed together and at 
the  same time. Another problem I didn't mention initially is that the "train" 
itself  is too sharp for a "long" exposure of 2 seconds. It should look smudged 
because  it apparently moved away from the meteor at a fast pace. But it 
looks  sharp. Since both the meteor image and the train are in the  same 
photograph, there should be some hint of smudged motion from  where the meteor first 
appeared to the point where the train is in the  photograph. But there's not. 
It's like there's two independent events combined  to form one image. If the 
train somehow moved that fast to be that far away  from the meteor image itself, 
the train should look smudged. This is because 2  seconds is a relatively long 
exposure. Another thing that looks phony to me is  the "meteor" image 
itself...there's no tapering of either end. It's blunt like  the shape of a long 
cigarette on both ends.I sure can't think of any meteor  without a streamline look 
at least on one end. 

>>How can he come to this conclusion, while you ends up with the  
opposite conclusion?<<
 
Simple...he's in error.

>>On the other hand could it be  fireworks, or something similar?<<
 
I doubt it, but possible. For the life of me, I can't see how anybody can  
claim this is a meteor image. 
George  Zay





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