(meteorobs) Question on an interesting meteor -Enhanced Picture

Thomas Dorman drygulch_99 at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 7 21:18:16 EDT 2009


plasma discharge?
Thomas Dorman

--- On Mon, 9/7/09, prospector at znet.com <prospector at znet.com> wrote:

> From: prospector at znet.com <prospector at znet.com>
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Question on an interesting meteor -Enhanced Picture
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Date: Monday, September 7, 2009, 6:52 PM
>    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..<<
> >
> >
> > 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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