(meteorobs) Question on an interesting meteor -Enhanced Picture

[prospector at znet.com]

   It was very long, even after it started traveling away from me. It was a
going away pointer, or near pointer, sloooow, yet fast enough to cause
(electrical?) interaction with the atmosphere, dynamics we seldom see. It
went so far in the atmosphere that visually the length of the meteor was
foreshortened, so I could look up or nearly look up the length of the
meteor, much as if it were more directly traveling directly away from me.
That's the way I see that it happened, it was very nice. If the meteor was
75 miles away (120km), the spikes, which were 2-4 arc min. long, would be
230 to 460 feet long (70 to 140 meters) in the atmosphere. This should give
some scientists something to work with. I reported this some time in 1999 to
2001 to meteorobs. The spikes came out at right angles to the path of the
meteor, from the meteor.

                                      Dave English
                                  Oceanside, California

Quoting GeoZay at aol.com:

>
> >>There was a slow earth
> grazer to my east that I was able to  watch with my 10X50 binoculars. It
> bounced off the atmosphere and continued  off almost directly away from
> me.
> I was looking, with the binoculars, right  up the "tailpipe" of the
> meteor
> and could clearly see spikes shooting off  the meteor just like a childs
> sparkler, but very much  shorter..<<
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> I'm not sure how you could have been looking right up the "tailpipe" of
> an
> earthgrazer? An earthgrazer would appear to be quite long. Looking right
> up
> a  meteors "tailpipe" would mean you were looking at a "Pointer". A
> Pointer
> should  look just like a star brightening and then dimming. No visible
> trail.
> GeoZay
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