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(meteorobs) RE: [ASTRO] USAF Fireball Releases for Late March 1996



GeoZay@aol.com wrote:

>Date       Time     Approx Location   Peak Radiated Total Radiated
>           (GMT)    Lat     Long      power (w/sr)  energy (Joules)

                                      (6000K model)  (6000K model)

>30 Mar96  04:03:42  31.3S   84.1W     4.2x10^10      1.2x10^11


10**11 Joule!  House decorating puts me in an empty room apart from a 
PC and bereft of the Stefan-Boltzmann constant.  Can someone estimate 
what size/mass of object this might represent?

Can the system distinguish between single and near simultaneous 
multiple events?

Les Cowley