(meteorobs) Fireball or Comet?

[meteoreye at comcast.net]

It's irrelevant.

Once the aircraft creates the contrail it moves on. The contrail stays near where it formed, depending on winds at that altitude.
It was likely an aircraft descending through a moist layer where the condensation clouds formed, it then continued to descend into drier layers where the contrail could not form.

Wayne

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: Thomas Dorman <drygulch_99 at yahoo.com> 

> My question is how long total in time did Mr.Roberts 
> see the object?If we are getting into time frames of 
> 25 to 30 minutes or more than it seems to slow for 
> aircraft.Mr.Roberts stated he had to go into his home 
> to get his camera.Then Mr.Roberts had to get the 
> batteries for the camera and then load the 
> batteries.Then he had to drive to a near by lake to be 
> able to photography the object.The images are said to 
> cover a time frame of 15 minutes or so.How much of the 
> sky did the object cross(degrees)in the time frame 
> that it was observed? Hopefully more information will 
> be posted by the observer. 
> Thomas Dorman 
> --- Marco Langbroek 
> wrote: 
> 
> > In my opinion the pictures show a sunlit aircraft 
> > contrail. 
> > 
> > - Marco 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Al Degutis schreef: 
> > > A reader sent me the following via e-mail: 
> > > 
> > > ================================================ 
> > > Fireball or Comet? 
> > > 
> > > I went outside and and i noticed a huge streak in 
> > the western sky 
> > > around 6:30pm, it had a huge head at first, i ran 
> > inside to get my cam 
> > > and got back outside and noticed the head was 
> > smaller. Realized no 
> > > battery in cam so i went to get battery then by 
> > this time the head was 
> > > smaller again and now it was going down behind a 
> > house and couldn't 
> > > get a shot so i got in my car and drove to a 
> > nearby lake and captured 
> > > a few photos. I'm not sure what it was. Time span 
> > from first photo to 
> > > the last was about 15 mins or so. Images taken 
> > with a canon digital 
> > > rebel 350D with a 75mm to 300mm canon lens at full 
> > zoom, second pic 
> > > was cropped. 
> > > 
> > > Images were taken from Newfoundland, Canada by 
> > Eddie Roberts on Oct 22 
> > > ================================================ 
> > > 
> > > I've uploaded his pictures here: 
> > > http://www.skyinsight.com/gallery/v/eddieroberts/ 
> > > 
> > 
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