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(meteorobs) Fwd: Have Meteorite, Now Looking for the Fireball
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Clear skies and many falls!
Lew Gramer <owner-meteorobs@jovian.com>
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:48:55 -0700
From: Bolide*chaser <bolidechaser@tripoddot net>
To: meteorobs@jovian.com
Subject: Have Meteorite, Now Looking for the Fireball
At Lew's recent invitation, I've come over from the Meteoritecentral
mailing list to pay a visit to you Meteorobs.
Usually we chase fireballs with the hope of finding a meteorite. In
this case I've found a meteorite (H4S3W1), but now I'm trying to connect
it to a documented fireball. The "W1" means that its weathering grade
is classified as a "1" on a scale of 0 (fell last night) to 7 (100%
altered to terrestrial minerals). This "W1" suggests that the fireball
occurred, at best, a few years ago, but considering it was found in the
Mojave Desert, it could have been 30 years ago. So far, 6 pieces have
been found, totaling just under 1 kg with the main mass nearly 400
grams. The larger pieces exhibit ~70% well-formed "primary" fusion
crust, and ~30% poorly developed "secondary" fusion crust, suggesting
two, widely spaced fragmentation events. So far, the strewn field is
~3.5 km long, very narrow, and trends almost exactly south-to-north.
Now here's a clue. The fireball would have been easily observable (and
probably heard) from the Bartsow-Victorville area. If the original mass
was large enough and traveled like the long-trending Peekskill Fireball,
it could have been witnessed from San Bernardino, Riverside, or even
Oceanside!
Aside from going through the archives of 30 years worth of San
Bernardino Co. newspapers, how could I go about researching this?
Suggestions please,
Bo*
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