(meteorobs) Question about daylight fireball event (historical).

[Tony Beresford]

At 08:28 PM 8/05/05, David Entwistle wrote:


>Can anyone provide a reliable reference for the 'Only known case of a
>meteor entering and leaving the Earth's atmosphere', 

The August 10, 1972 event is discussed in most books which talk about asteroid impacts.
There are a lot of observer reports and some photos in The October 1972( Vol44 no. 4) Sky& Telescope ,page 269
and a letter about in April 1973 issue Vol 45, no.4, page 219 with another image.
A full article "the meteor that miised the Earth" by L.G. Jacchia was on page
4 of the July 1974 issue of Sky& Telscope (vol48, no. 1 ).

 From memory there was also some articles in Nature about it late 1972 or early 1973.
Tony Beresford