(meteorobs) Addendum to Natural Meteor...

[Chris Peterson]

The range between cameras is too large for this to be an aircraft. In 
addition, it is possible in this case to correlate segments of the light 
curve from each location. The fragmentation was real.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry" <ycsentinel at att.net>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 1:57 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Addendum to Natural Meteor...


> The "fragmentation" that is often apparent in photographic movies is 
> usually
> the broad ablation light of a meteoroid illuminating the dust on mirrors,
> lenses, and domes as the object moves across the sky.
>
> Unless INDEPENDANT fragment motion or direction(fall) can be observed, or
> particle dying light that fades AFTER meteoroid is well beyond the point 
> of
> illuminating any dust in that vacinity on the camera system, it should be
> assumed to be a lens dust artifact.
>
> It does take very close image scrutiny looking for the above 
> characteristics
> to avoid this apparent deception when arriving at a fragmentation
> conclusion.
>
> YCSentinel