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

[Thomas Dorman]

Robert
Seems to me there are two arguments here.One of color of meteors which I will 
not address and which I think is covering up the real issue here. Can NEO cause 
fireball meteor events.Right now I cannot not see where fireball data supports 
either sides claims.Simply the data is lacking.
But  the data on Asteroids is pretty clear.
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html
That other asteroid bodies can orbit and be present with other asteroid 
bodies.So it does seems,to me and not a great leap of logic or 
genuis, that such  fireball events could be possible. In addition if what is now 
believe that some asteroids are died comets this would seem to increase the 
possibilities of such event taking place.May I point  just one event that 
support what I am talking about asteroid 596 Scheila event this year.
Just pointing this out. Call me crazy,I have thick skin and can live with it.
Thomas

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From: Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net>
To: Meteor science and meteor observing <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Mon, October 17, 2011 12:46:38 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) "Forecast" of fireballs from NEO visit - huh?

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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