(meteorobs) Any updates on this story USAF Fireball Reports

[Ed Majden]

Elton:

	I don't know where this miss information originates from.  Dr. Peter  
Brown is an associate professor of Astronomy at the at the University  
of Western Ontario.  See:
http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/      As far as I'm aware he  
never worked at Los Alamos but has colleagues at this institution.   
He is not semi-retired but is an active member of the University of  
Western Ontario meteor group.  The UWO does operate an all-sky camera  
system in conjunction with meteor radars.  See:
http://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/cmor.htm

Ed Majden - MIAC Associate

On 8-Jan-10, at 4:53 PM, MEM wrote:

> Mike, I believe that a suitable existing civilian agency to get  
> this data would be the Meteoroids office of NASA and we should  
> politic for that.  Getting them to take up the mission will be more  
> difficult than pulling teeth.
>
> One of the issues in the past was prior to dissemination the data  
> had to be sanitized--"de-precisioned"-- if that is a word, such  
> that the true capabilities of the sensors could not be inferred by  
> foreign powers.
>
> IIRC Peter Brown used to work for Los Alamos Labs(?) (and now is  
> supposed to be semi retired but running a fireball working group  
> out of Western Ontario University) and was cleared to do the  
> downgrading necessary prior to release.IMO.   Speaking from a  
> little background in the field, I'll bet we could compute the exact  
> trajectory corridor through a 100m bullseye all the way to the 200  
> miles down to 3 were it necessary.
>
> Elton