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Re: (meteorobs) Halloween Meteors
At 12:46 PM 11/01/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-11-01 12:34:27 EST, you write:
>
>Steve<<
> Umm..without a substantive atmosphere, there'd be nothing for the meteors
> to ionize, would there??
> >>
>
>Oh I don't know...where the meteors usually burn up over earth, the
>atmosphere isn't very substantive either.
>George Zay
If that be the case (and you weren't trying to lengthen one of my legs
relative to the other!), then a whole new field of meteor observation has
just been proposed: watching for meteors entering the planets' atmospheres!
Now, THAT'S an innovative thought...
SteveH
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