Re: (meteorobs) Rotating earth?

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Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Rotating earth?
From: josefo@infoseldot net.mx
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:38:57 -0600
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Hi Asaf ...


> Asaf Shtull-Trauring wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> We have a given meteor. How does it burn up in the atmosphere? Is it a
> moveless grain of dirt, which burns in the atmosphere and the rotating
> earth and atmosphere make a strike for the meteorire, or is the
> meteorite moving and creating the strike?

Actually both ...

For the speeding salt grain size meteor the Earth is almost standing 
still but it is moving, not only rotationally but translating 
around the Sun ...
 
> I bet that the meteor's moving creates the strike, since Earth's
> rotation is too slow for such a quick strike. But who knows?
> 
> Thanks, Asaf.
> ==
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> Asaf Shtull-Trauring, Amateur Astronomer
> 
> http://www.maxnm.com/asaf/

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