(meteorobs) Fireball and booms reported - Dorchester County, Md., to the Virginia/North Carolina border

[Leo S]

Thomas,

Unfortunately they re-edited the interview in that news report so that 
it did not include as much information as before. Kent Blackwell also 
said the meteor went from green to red, which also suggests to me that 
it was not junk.

It does sound as though this would have had to be a relatively low entry 
angle for the booms to be heard over such a wide area.

Do asteroid orbits follow similar patterns to cometary meteoroid orbits? 
ie, do they have have radiants, that rise over time?

If they did, then would it not be a bit late in the evening for asteroid 
grazers? If this is true, then perhaps we have a cometary fragment in 
this case? Most cometary radiants produce grazers at around this time in 
the evening, so perhaps this makes sense?

Also, I have never seen a non-shower member follow the same pattern of 
color from green to red that Leonids and Perseids display for example, 
which would suggest that only cometary meteoroids do this to me. Perhaps 
someone else here has seen a non-shower member do this?

Leo

Thomas Dorman wrote:
> Leo 
> Another small asteroid/meteoroid event.Cool! Watch the video on the link you posted and today have read many accounts.Seems to me early on in the accounts that this was meteor type event.An earth-grazer?As to the Naval observatory's comments to what was observed based on no more than the SL4 rocket body having a predicted  pass over the area nearest to the time of this event.Look at the pass times for this rocket body over the effected area and nearly two hours before the forecasted decay.Also look at the direction the object is believed to have been traveling and the direction of SL4 pass over the area.I think bad judgment on their part to say anything.Also last time I heard of any space junk causing an acoustic event was the space station Mir reentry of the South Pacific.I cannot recall even one report of an acostic event with Star Dust when it came back.Please correct me if I am wrong in the view that acostic event from decaying space junk are very
>  rare.
> I have already seen the postings on this event going around that this was a government experiment and cover up,we were being attacked by ?,and the Aliens are a coming.Really funny.
> Thomas Dorman 
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