(meteorobs) Repost- Clear evidence for Meteoroid ejecta/outgassing.
GeoZay at aol.com
GeoZay at aol.com
Mon Sep 14 12:25:16 EDT 2009
>>George,
You said something like that to me ten years ago, didn't it eventually
end with you getting kicked off meteorobs? Some folks never learn.<<
I wasn't formerly kicked off, but I was definitely stifled whenever I made
posts for awhile. I don't think I've had posting problems lately
though.For the most part, they seemed to be getting thru. I'm fuzzy with the
memory, but I believe the problems I had with you was that you leaned towards
seeing UFO's and the sort...which of course I thought was ridiculous. About
that time was when I gave up meteor observing and turned to other hobbies. So
that also contributed to my absence.
As for Larry... I think some of his problems with the "ejected outgassing"
thingy is that he's ignoring some key things already mentioned. The photos
that Marco and Koen directed us to along with explanations from Chris
pretty well squared a lot of it away...or at least it should have. The photos
showed pretty much the same thing that Larry's photo had. A lot of these
photos were shot with the use of a rotating shutter. The effect is that the
meteor image shows multiple breaks for anything moving at meteor speeds.
Anything ejected at these kind of speeds should also show these breaks. But they
don't, because they are going way too slow to show any chops. Another
point is that if there were anything ejected from the side of this meteoroid,
wouldn't there also be some kind of forward motion momentum paralleling the
meteor's direction? If so, I think I would also expect to see some forward
smearing in the photograph as well if there were any ejected outgassing.
George Zay
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