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Re: (meteorobs) Tunguska bolide & Beta taurid stream
When he spoke at the University of Denver DAS long ago, I got
the impression that he was triangulating using the U of New Mexico
published program in a book by Dan Ray. The original ran on a
360 computer. I forget the title. I tried to scan it, but fifteen
years ago scanner technology for that was useless.
A 90 % accurate FORTRAN program is useless.
Yes to locate the meteorite he described using a map to
hand triangulate the visual sightings.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Davis <MeteorObs@charlestondot net>
To: <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Tunguska bolide & Beta taurid stream
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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