(meteorobs) ?Errant Geminid? - Meteorite Destroys Warehouse inAukland, New Zealand?

mexicodoug at aim.com mexicodoug at aim.com
Mon Dec 15 01:54:02 EST 2008


Thanks for the kind comments, Alister.  If you every get curious about 
a meteoroid's temperature anywhere in the extended Solar System, here's 
something I couldn't find before that wings it for carbonaceous 
chondrites, ordinary chondrites and Irons:

http://www.diogenite.com/met-temp.html

The 3 pages of assumptions and interpretation are covered here:

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2005-January/007521.html
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2005-January/007522.html
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2005-January/007523.html

Best wishes,
...And may (another) meteorite fall around your Province for the 
Holidays,
Doug


-----Original Message-----
From: Alister <aling at telus.net>
To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 3:48 pm
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) ?Errant Geminid? - Meteorite Destroys 
Warehouse inAukland, New Zealand?



Thanks for the points of additional clarification Doug - as you saw I 
was
not attempting to cover the subject in depth!

<snip>
> (Probably no meteoroid is hot enough to cause fires.  ....
>  A Supersonic fireball at ground level is an
> impending disaster for many other reasons.

Essentially that was point. If it was big enough to cause a fire, there
would be plenty of collateral damage that would be of greater impact 
<grin>.
I had meant to be more blatant, but I must have let my intent slip.

Alister.

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