(meteorobs) Natural meteor or something else?

Meteorites USA eric at meteoritesusa.com
Tue Oct 12 13:08:52 EDT 2010


Thomas, I don't think this is an "Earth Grazer" by definition. If it 
were and EG, it wouldn't have fragmented... Would it?

There was fragmentation. This tells me there are most probably 
meteorites on the ground.

Eric


On 10/12/2010 9:57 AM, Thomas Dorman wrote:
> Thomas
> I checked and other sources show no reentry for this event.To me this looks like an earh grazer.I will say that we are not told of all man made objects put into orbit but my guess is meteor event.Just my view from the peanut gallery.
> Thomas
> --- On Tue, 10/12/10, Meteorites USA<eric at meteoritesusa.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> From: Meteorites USA<eric at meteoritesusa.com>
>> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Natural meteor or something else?
>> To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
>> Date: Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 11:13 AM
>> Hi Thomas, So you think this might be
>> space debris? That's possible, but
>> I don't think so. Every "re-entry" of some sort of
>> satellite, rocket,
>> probe, or even the space shuttle disaster, there was
>> massive amounts of
>> fragmentation from almost the very beginning of the video.
>> Thousands of
>> pieces breaking off from the main mass, and the
>> fragmentation usually
>> starts early on, high in the atmosphere.
>>
>> Your video clearly shows no fragmentation of the body until
>> the last few
>> seconds of the flight before the retardation point. It
>> broke into only 3
>> "visible" pieces and blinked out. In other words, whatever
>> it was, it
>> was solid enough to have survived ~20 seconds of
>> atmospheric entry
>> almost intact. Granted it was a slow mover, and at a
>> shallow angle, so
>> the preasures weren't as great as say one traveling at 45
>> degrees and
>> 25,000+ MPH. However I still think this might be a natural
>> meteor and
>> not space debris. Perhaps an iron meteoroid?
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>
>> It clearly shows some fragmentation. It breaks into three
>> pieces.
>>
>> On 10/12/2010 8:37 AM, Thomas Ashcraft wrote:
>>      
>>>      Three different all-sky video camera
>>>        
>> views have turned up for the
>>      
>>> September 21, 2010 fireball over New Mexico.  I
>>>        
>> am still wondering if
>>      
>>> this fireball was a natural meteor? It lasts 23
>>>        
>> seconds.  One expert
>>      
>>> observer offered the opinion that this may not have
>>>        
>> been a natural meteor.
>>      
>>> In all movies north is screen top and west is screen
>>>        
>> right.
>>      
>>> Any analysis welcome.
>>>
>>> Thomas Ashcraft
>>> New Mexico
>>>
>>>
>>> Albuquerque:
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSw0Nc-HMk4
>>>
>>> Lamy, New Mexico: ( my capture)
>>> http://www.heliotown.com/FBs20100922_030127ut_Ashcraft_hr.mp4
>>>
>>>
>>> Los Alamos:
>>> http://talus-and-heavner.com/sci/meteor/m20100922_030100_281.mp4
>>>
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