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Re: (meteorobs) Re: meteor over los angeles
>Let's see how many errors can be noted in this article?
OK, I'll bite! :)
Calls began at 7:20, sun doesn't set till 7:45. (Unless it was BRIGHT!)
Estimated meteor travelling at up to 70 *miles* per sec, not 70 km/s.
Only 3-4 meteors "break through the atmosphere"(???) over LA each year.
Meteor ONLY spotted within 100 mile radius? (This IS possible...)
Hours/days later "More than likely it's burned out by now." (Hope so!)
Meteors coming from asteroid belt collisions rather than comets.
What else did I miss? That's practically one error per sentence as
it is, so I can't be TOO far off... ;>
Lordy, lordy! Imagine if ANY professional astronomer, but especially a PR
specialist, was quoted as saying there were 400 *trillion* stars in the Milky
Way, or that the universe were "hundreds of billions of years old", or that
stars were "at least a million miles away", or that *Jupiter's* ring could be
seen in binoculars, or ANY such nonsense! Such an astronomer would be cast in
shame the world over: but apparently misquotes and ignorance about meteoroids
and meteors is more acceptable to the community... :(
Lew
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