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Re: (meteorobs) -19 MagitUDE?!
That is if the meteoroid is of asteroidal origin. Cometary meteoroids often explode at the end of their flight and
produce very bright flashes. If I recall right there was a -20 Leonid above Hong Kong last year...
...such meteors are quite possible with Perseids and Leonids! Let's wait and see Leonids 1999!!
Jure
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> Od: Skywayinc@aol.com
> Za: meteorobs@jovian.com
> Zadeva: Re: (meteorobs) -19 MagitUDE?!
> Datum: 7. julij 1999 12:24
>
> In a message dated 07/06/1999 9:34:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> rmn@aaocbn.aaodot gov.au writes:
>
> << I'm not sure what the maximum possible apparent magnitude of a fireball
> might be, but a 100 metre asteroid seen from several kms distance would
> considerably outshine the Sun. >>
>
> Let's not forget the famous "Grand Tetons Fireball" of August 1972. That
> object actually entered the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere and then
> skipped back out into space (like a flat stone skipping across a pond). This
> object was seen by many in broad daylight and there was even a 8mm. film of
> the object skirting above the Tetons. Some suggest that the weight of this
> object was in the thousands of tons (!) and its brightness was estimated by
> reliable eyewitnesses as somewhere between -19 and -25.
>
> -- joe rao
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