(meteorobs) Musings on Sentinel objectives.

[Chris Peterson]

We view a fresh recovery with multistation meteor data as the holy grail of 
the network, but at the same time we recognize such things happen rarely, 
and there is a lot of other useful data to be collected at the same time: 
shower detection, radiant monitoring, orbit statistics, size distribution. 
Also, we are very engaged in public education about meteors, meteorites, and 
meteor showers.

Fortunately, none of these objectives are at odds with each other, or 
require any sort of equipment compromise at all.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Musings on Sentinel objectives.


> While the abundance of meteorites from Antarctica and specifically the 
> Sahara is
> indeed volumes now, what is still very rare is being able to connect a 
> meteorite
> to a solar system orbit. There is only a handful of recovered meteorites 
> where
> we know their orbits in the solar system before they fell. That is the 
> primary
> purpose of most all-sky networks, and one that is still one with priority 
> I think.
>
> Besides that, recovering a fresh fall means you have the opportunity to 
> research
> short-lived cosmic isotopes in the stone, something which isn't possible 
> with
> Antarctic or Sahara meteorites given their old terrestrial ages.