(meteorobs) Natural meteor or something else?

[Meteorites USA]

Hi George, "...There could be, but not all fragmenting meteors will drop 
meteorites...."

And we know this how? ;) Because we "subjectively" interpret videos and 
do calculations based on composition, pressure, and temperature, that 
"might" be wrong. How many of these events have people actually hunted?

No one knows the answer to this 100%... It's a guess that all that 
material gets burned up high in the atmosphere. There is ZERO documented 
recovery or expeditionary evidence. No one has hunted a large percentage 
of these fragmentation events/sightings. There's merely educated 
scientific "guesses" as to whether there is material on the ground. How 
many of these events have actually been hunted? Likely less than 1%.

Lack of evidence is not evidence. Though I'm sure someone will quote 
Occam's razor... I'd like to point out that all the complicated 
calculations in the world, are just that calculations. The simplest way 
to prove this is to scientifically and systematically hunt and document 
each of these events. Study 100 of these events. Figure a search area, 
form expeditions, keep a running log, document the results, and then 
form a theory. Otherwise it's simply an unproven scientific hypothesis 
with no supporting hard evidence. I've read ablation papers, countless 
papers regarding this phenomena, and nothing I've read (thus far) 
supports this hypothesis with any experimental or documented evidence.

Eric



On 10/12/2010 10:43 AM, GeoZay at aol.com wrote:
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>>> Thomas, I don't think this is an "Earth Grazer" by  definition. If it
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> were and EG, it wouldn't have fragmented... Would  it?<<
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> Why wouldn't it? If there is enuf compression for it to become
> incandescent, then there should be enuf resistance for it to possibly  fragment.
> Otherwise they wouldn't be seen at all.
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>>> There was fragmentation. This tells me there are most  probably
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> meteorites on the ground.<<
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> There could be, but not all fragmenting meteors will drop meteorites. Some
> showers produce lots of fragmenting meteors...such as the alpha
> Capricornids,  but to date no recovered meteorites from them...just oos and ahhhs.
> GeoZay
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