(meteorobs) Any updates on this story USAF Fireball Reports

[Ed Majden]

Dave:
	I just tried the links below and they work fine for me.  Other links  
on the UWO main pages don't seem to work however.  I stand corrected,  
Peter was at Los Alamos for a short time in 2001. Peter holds the  
Canada Research Chair in Meteor Science at the UWO.
Ed

On 8-Jan-10, at 5:35 PM, DRM wrote:

> 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?
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> Dave
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> Reports
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> Elton:
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> 	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
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> Ed Majden - MIAC Associate
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> On 8-Jan-10, at 4:53 PM, MEM wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Elton
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