(meteorobs) Peter Brown was USAF Fireball Reports

[MEM]

Thanks Ed, For some reason I had believed that 10+ years ago he did a stint at Los Alamos for NORAD; a joint Canadian/American agency(???) in some official or advisory capacity.  

If I am wrong-- so sorry but has been a long abiding belief runing back 13-15 years. I knew that for the past 4 or so he was at WOU.

Thanks for clearing this up I so sincerely don't want to send out faulty info.
Elton

--- On Fri, 1/8/10, Ed Majden <epmajden at shaw.ca> wrote:

From: Ed Majden <epmajden at shaw.ca>

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.  bs