(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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