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RE: (meteorobs) Excerpts from "CCNet 88/2001 - 19 July 2001"



Kevin and I were thinking the same thing, Lew!!

Wayne (Meteor)

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From: 	Lew Gramer[SMTP:dedalus@latrade.com]
Sent: 	Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:03 AM
To: 	Meteor Observing Mailing List
Subject: 	(meteorobs) Excerpts from "CCNet 88/2001 - 19 July 2001"


A nice, juicy issue this time, with several articles pertaining or related
to a potential evolutionary relationship between comets and some asteroid
groups - of interest in regards the Geminids and other "asteroid" streams.

Re: the first item below, maybe 'meteorobs' founding subscriber Wayne Hally
could offer to speak before AAAP of New Jersey some time soon, to help them
along a bit in their quest to expand their meteor understanding? :)

Clear skies!
Lew Gramer


------- Forwarded Message

From: Peiser Benny <B.J.Peiser@livjm.acdot uk>
To: cambridge-conference <cambridge-conference@livjm.acdot uk>
Subject: CCNet 88/2001 -  19 July 2001
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 10:27:25 +0100

CCNet 88/2001 - 19 July 2001
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(1) FIREBALL EXPLODES OVER NEW JERSEY
    The Trentonian, 18 July 2001


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(1) FIREBALL EXPLODES OVER NEW JERSEY

>From The Trentonian, 18 July 2001
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2099468&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=4
4551&rfi=6

UFO sightings at dusk, dawn

DAVE SOMMERS, Staff Writer July 18, 2001 

Most UFO sightings in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania sky occur either at dawn
or dusk when objects high up in the stratosphere, such as airplanes or
meteorites, are more likely to refract sunlight back to earth, astronomers
say. 

That's one of the things that puzzles Kirk Alexander, director of the
Amateur Astronomy Association of Princeton, who notes that Sunday's unusual
sighting occurred in the middle of night.

Alexander said many UFO sightings turn out to be small meteors which split
up, fall back into the stratosphere and burn brightly for several minutes.

"The larger meteorites can explode and the pieces burn in unison as they
fall through the atmosphere," he said.

That's basically the description the 70 or so people gave when they
described the brightly burning lights they observed near Carteret at 12:30
a.m. Sunday.

Alexander also noted that the cool, crisp weather last weekend enabled
people to see for miles, something which can't happen onhazy cloud-filled
nights. 

"There have been incidents where aircraft eject small objects out of their
exhaust which can been seen for miles," he said, adding one more explanation
to the long list of possibilities.

The Amateur Astronomy Association group has 150 members. They meet twice a
month, usually at one of the group's two observatories inWashington Crossing
State Park in New Jersey or Jenny Jump, New Jersey.

"As astronomers, we try to look at these weird happenings as a way to learn
something, and we usually do," he said. 

)The Trentonian 2001 


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