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

[Hunter, Robert]

?? It passed behind a hill, yet still hit your windshield ?? 

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Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:14 PM
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Can a meteor still be glowing when it hits
Earth?

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.



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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:
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>> 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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