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Re: (meteorobs) Tunguska bolide & Beta taurid stream
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From: Rob McNaught <rmn@aaocbn.aaodot gov.au>
>From my experience of gathering the data from eye-witnesses, and my
>knowledge of how others have done so (sometimes by phone only), I think it
>is a myth that an orbit can be derived from eye-witness sightings. One
>only needs to look back to the history of the hyperbolic meteor debate to
>see that it took objective techniques to settle the issue.
Hi Rob,
Do you, or anyone for that matter, know if Harvey Nininger was able to
calculate such orbits. I thought I had read somewhere at some time, that he
was, but I may be mistaken. In any event, he was successful in recovering
them.
Mark
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