(meteorobs) "Forecast" of fireballs from NEO visit - huh?

Robert Lunsford lunro.imo.usa at cox.net
Mon Oct 17 14:46:38 EDT 2011


Dirk and All,

Now that comment was uncalled for and inappropriate. If I was a list elf and that was said about me, I would be tempted to ban any further comments from you. This is just not because it was a personal comment, but the fact that all your posts are attempts to draw traffic to your web site using sensational headlines and statements.  

While I appreciate you using the AMS archives for research, I don't believe that only six years worth of data can be the basis of fireball patterns. One must remember that this project was initially burdened with several longs gaps in reporting for various reasons and is not a complete listing all the way back to January 2005. Thanks to Mike Hankey, these troubles seem to be over and the fireball table is more popular than ever. It will become more valuable and useful as the years progress.

Dirk, you do offer a valuable service to the public but I find it most distasteful that you resort to sensationalism and pseudoscience on meteorobs to draw attention to your web site. And now a personal attack on Mr. Hally's intelligence. Where will it end?

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

    
---- drtanuki <drtanuki at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Wayne,  If you weren`t so busy you might check the AMS archives for repeated patterns for 14OCT-20OCT from 2005-2011 or even earlier if they exist. Correlation to an NEO?; unknown yet.  You speak so much for a person who knows so little.  
> Best Regards, Dirk Ross..Tokyo



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