(meteorobs) RE: meteorobs-digest V1 #517

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• Subject: (meteorobs) RE: meteorobs-digest V1 #517
• From: "Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)" <FUEC0@towanda.sylvania.com>
• Date: Tue, 09 Sep 97 05:31:00 PDT
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     This HAS GOT to be one of the best examples of what we are talking 
about.  Since WHEN does a "typical" meteor have to come from anywhere 
(besides a radiant)?  Do they hide behind the moon during the day and jump 
at the earth before midnight?  Please tell me that all my thinking that the 
earth is bombarded from the heavens from all directions 24/7 is incorrect 
after all these years?  I believe more fireballs may be OBSERVED at a 
certain time or a certain place but to say the OCCUR at a certain time or 
place has to be ludicrous?  Does it not?

From: NTZT04A@prodigy.com ( THOMAS T WOJACK)
Date: Mon,  8 Sep 1997 09:56:44, -0500
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Going by logic...

I believe that there is more fireballs in the evening that in the
morning because meteoroids aren't moving head-on with the Earth in
the evening.  You see, a meteoroid must travel faster than the Earth
to become a meteor or a meteorite in the evening.  The faster a
meteor is traveling, the brighter it will be.

Jonathan

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