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Re: (meteorobs) The Great Daylight 1972 Fireball over Wyoming

I'm surprised Gary Kronk hasn't weighed in on this subject, he must be
busy working on his book.  Anyway, he's got a good page devoted to
this event in his web site.  The URL is: 

      http://medicine.wustldot edu/~kronkg/1972.html 

If you read this page you'll discover many facts, including that the
fireball was recorded by a US Air Force satellite, a fact which took
some time to be revealed.  Remember this was deep in the cold war era.
The satellite is the source of the precise timing (101 min.) and the
complete ground track from Utah to Alberta.

Anyway, for those of you without web access, I've reproduced the
references section of this article so you can go read about it from
the original sources.  Find a good reference library and look it up!

References:

      Sky and Telescope, 44 (October 1972), pp. 269-272.

      Bartky, C. D., Gordon, E., and Li, F., "Letter" Sky and
      Telescope, 45 (April 1973), p. 219.

      Rawcliffe, R. D., Bartky, C. D., Li, F., Gordon, E., and Carta,
      D., "Meteor of August 10, 1972", Nature, 247 (February 15,
      1974), p. 449.

      Jacchia, Luigi G., "A Meteorite that Missed Earth," Sky and
      Telescope, 48 (July 1974), pp.  4-9.

      "Correction", Sky and Telescope, 48 (August 1974), p. 82.

      Ceplecha, Z., "Earth-grazing daylight fireball of August 10,
      1972," Astronomy and Astrophysics, 283 (1994), pp. 287-288.

Clear skies!

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