(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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