(meteorobs) Chris of Cloudbait Observatory. Your thoughts on N.M. 10/09 Fireball....?

[Ed Majden]

Larry:
	There is NO way to determine the composition of a fireball unless  
you get a spectrum of it.  Strong fragmentation indicates that it was  
probably some sort of stone meteoroid.  I believe you have also over  
estimated the brightness of this fireball.  If it was brighter than  
the sun as you have suggested it would have turned the night sky into  
daylight!
Ed Majden
AMS Meteor Spectroscopy

On 12-Oct-09, at 12:28 AM, Larry wrote:

> Chris do you have any preliminary thoughts on the COMPOSITION of this
> fireball with so many large explosions with many smaller visual  
> flareups
> and/or detonations?
>
> It is rather intuitive that fragmentation is the principle mode of  
> ablation
> in this instance. Likely the ground beneath this is littered with  
> meteorite
> fragments....IMO.
>
> YCSentinel
>
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