Re: (meteorobs) Going by logic...

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Going by logic...
• From: Lew Gramer <lewkaren@tiacdot net>
• Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 10:33:25 -0400
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At 11:28 PM 9/6/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Various surveys including a national all-sky camera network in the UK
>showed that fireballs were more frequent during the evening than the
>morning.
>Malcolm 

Any proposed reason for this, Malcolm? Are slower heavy-object burnups
actually likely to be BRIGHTER than fast ones for some reason? Or is there
a preferred orbital plane and direction for heavier interplanetary debris,
causing them to be more plentiful on the earth-catching than the
earth-caught side?? Curious...

Lew

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