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(meteorobs) Re: NSS-Discuss/ TWA Flight 800 (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:03:19 -0400
From: Ruth Folchman & Richard Wagner <campr2@javanetdot com>
To: NSS-Discuss@ari.aridot net
Subject: Re: NSS-Discuss/ TWA Flight 800
[ NSS-Discuss message from campr2@javanetdot com (Ruth Folchman & Richard
Wagner) ]
Harold W. Hamblet wrote:
>
>At work tonight someone said something that struck me. And he said it
>only half jokingly. "A meteor hit the plane."
>....... Anyone know how to figure the odds?
Apologies for late follow-up, but I've literally been in the woods. I
haven't a clue as to how one would figure the odds, but the probability is
definitely non-zero. John Lewis notes in his excellent book "Rain of Fire
and Ice" a New York Times report datelined San Francisco, September 28,
1934 which read:
"Plowing head-on at an altitude of 7,000 feet into a great shower of
meteors, some of which exploded with sufficient force to rock the ship, a
crowded New York-San Francisco plane of the United Air Lines figured in a
sensational sky trip at dawn today, which gave crew and passengers the
experience of a lifetime."
It nearly happened then...
Richard Wagner
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