(meteorobs) New Mexico fireball: Space junk or natural meteor?

[Roberto G.]

From: "Thomas Dorman" <drygulch_99 at yahoo.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) New Mexico fireball: Space junk or natural meteor?


> Chris
> I agree this was not space junk event.After viewing
> the videos my guess is we are looking at a earthgrazer
> that dug deep into the atmosphere and if it did not
> burn up may very well have skipped back out into
> space.Trajectory calculations will tell the story.What
> a beast!
> Thomas Dorman

> --- Chris Peterson <clp at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Nothing in the catalog. Also, it appears to have
>> been going too fast for 
>> space junk. And assuming that there were no clouds
>> blocking the southern 
>> view of my cameras, I'd guess that the endpoint was
>> fairly low, in which 
>> case the descent angle was also inconsistent with
>> space junk (since it's 
>> on at least two cameras, I hope somebody is
>> computing the descent 
>> angle).
>> 
>> Looks like a natural object to me, similar to a half
>> dozen or so 
>> fireballs I've caught in the past.
>> 
>> Chris

>> From: "Thomas Ashcraft" <ashcraft at heliotown.com>
>> 
>> 
>> > Someone mentioned that the September 13, 2007 
>> 0920 UT New Mexico 
>> > fireball might be space junk.
>> > Does anyone know if there was any man-made stuff
>> re-entering at that 
>> > exact time and place?
>> >
>>
> http://www.heliotown.com/Fireball_Sep_13_2007_Ashcraft.html
>> >
>> > Thanks for any analysis.
>> >
>> > Clear skies,
>> > Thomas Ashcraft

We must too remember that a Full Moon bolid in general
has 100 Kg in mass then if the object was man-made it
should be a very big object and it's impossible that nobody
known that a similar object was falling.
Best greetings.
Roberto Gorelli