(meteorobs) Any updates on this story USAF Fireball Reports

DRM dave at sciencecenter.no-ip.org
Fri Jan 8 20:35:36 EST 2010


Not sure about this or that, but when going to the site as below and
clicking on the link to Peter's page delivers one to "The page you're
looking for wasn't found". Maybe that's where it comes from?

Dave
KA0SWT






 

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[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Ed Majden
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 18:14
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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Any updates on this story USAF Fireball Reports

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

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