(meteorobs) October 1996 fireball pair

[Matson, Robert D.]

Hi Jay,

A dynamic linkage between the New Mexico/Texas meteor and the California
meteor 104 minutes later was eventually ruled out. In fact, the NM/TX
meteor was eventually shown not to be an earth-grazer:  the entry angle
was too steep. It was theorized that the two meteors may have been
from the same meteoroid stream. This seems to be a not-infrequent
occurrence with fireballs in late September and early October.

--Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Jay Salsburg
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 7:54 AM
To: 'Meteor science and meteor observing'
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) On the Sept 21 British Earth grazer fireball

Interesting facts outlined in the News Report linked below...

1. The First reported sighting in New Mexico declared the Meteor "
brightened, then dimmed-as would be expected if it were just skipping briefly thru the atmosphere."
2, "The meteor's latitude over Calif was the same as it was over NM"
3. "the longitudinal distance between the two sightings was 25 deg, the amount Earth turns on its axis in 100 min."

-----Original Message-----
From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
[mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of bob
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) On the Sept 21 British Earth grazer fireball

Esko - Very interesting article that you presented; besides the 1972 Teton fireball there is another modern day fireball that is thought to have skipped and reentered on its next revolution in Oct 3rd, 1996.
See http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg02007.html
for more info  search on:
1)Kate Hutton, a seismologist at CIT; 2)John Wasson, a meteorite specialist at UCLA; and, 3) Mark Boslough, a Physicist at Sandia Labs.



--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Esko Lyytinen <esko.lyytinen at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I inform the list members, that there is an English language news of 
> the Finnish "Tähdet ja Avaruus" - journal, of this exceptional 
> fireball at the lunarmeteorite site:
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.fi/
> 
> The Finnish language news is still missing. Both were planned to get 
> ready till yesterday, but finalizing the English version with contacts 
> into two other timezones was so exhausting to the editors and myself 
> that the Finnish version was forced to be delayed till today.
> This will appear in:
> http://www.avaruus.fi/uutiset.html
> but is not there yet.
> 
> Regards,
> Esko