(meteorobs) Can a meteor still be glowing when it hits Earth?

[jack]

Hi I am brand new to this site, and joined to get an answer to what hit our 
car windscreen with an huge explosion. Your layman's guess is based on 
hearsay and not an fair answer too genuine question. This is the type of 
answer I have had from professionals with PhDs. If something hit the planet 
at 90 degree how many miles of atmosphere and split seconds before this hits 
the ground. Would this cool down? I know for sure it does not as the impact 
left enough evidence to prove it was playable while some particles must have 
been solid. What hit us (iron) was very small the damage to the windscreen 
is only 3mm wide and 9 mm long.



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Ed Totman" <etotman at yahoo.com>

To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>

Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 12:17 PM

Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Can a meteor still be glowing when it hits Earth?


> My layman's guess is that the object only appeared to
> be close by. It was probably still in the upper
> atmosphere when you saw it. If you think about it
> intuitively, a meteorite is a chunk of stone or iron,
> and it has to pass through miles of cool atmosphere
> before reaching the ground. So it seems to me that
> most would cool down completely before hitting the
> ground.
>
> --- gmiller at gregmiller.net wrote:
>
>> I was headed to my club's dark site near Curby
>> Indiana on Tuesday (Nov 1) when I saw what appeared
>> to be a very slow moving meteor. It then continued
>> falling below where I knew trees were, and didn't
>> disappear until it passed behind a hill, and
>> wouldn't have been more than 20 ft from the ground
>> at the time.
>>
>> It was falling straight down about the speed of a
>> raindrop. It was blue, and about mag 2-4, and was
>> about 100-200 yards away. I didn't log the time,
>> but another member of the club says he saw a
>> fireball in that general direction at about 9:37p
>> and was about mag -4.
>>
>> I knew meteroites hit the Earth all the time, but I
>> wouldn't expect them to still be glowing when they
>> hit.
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