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Re: (meteorobs) Nov. 12/13 Summary
At 02:31 AM 11/14/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Sound moves at approx 5 seconds per mile (old meteorological trick for
>estimating distance to lightning stroke) , so 11-12 seconds implies 2.2
>to2.4 miles or about 11000 - 13000 feet.Probably would have scared the C**p
>out of anyone traveling in an airliner I guess.(Raises interesting
>comparison to the flight 800 explosion height, eh?) Since the sound was so
>weak, I'd have to agree with what George suggested that it was a very small
>particle by that point. Just curious, Mark, was it just a single boom, or
>how long did it last. Did you get a sound magnitude estimate:-):-) {New
>skill for NAFN observers :->}
Wayne, thanks for the 5 seconds/mile info.......the sound was just a single
boom, very sharp and short in nature, a fraction of a second. I am reporting
the sound was weak, but that may be suspect since I have no other meteor
sounds to compare it with.
Mark Davis, newbie sound recorder! ;)
MeteorObs@charlestondot net