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Re: (meteorobs) Re; Meteor shower/meteorite shower.

What the heck I'll throw in two my near worthless two cents worth. It would seem that in this
important :-) discussion that meteorites travel in swarms beyond the earth's atmosphere. Therefore,
one would talk about meteorite swarms. However, once entered the atmosphere they become a meteor
shower. Anyone for a herd, colony, ...?

Ed Majden wrote:

>     From my professional sources re the term, "meteorite shower"  I hope
> this clears things up.
> Ed
>
> >
> > This is just literary licence.  It would typically be called a meteorite
> > fall.  It is no different than St-Robert or Tagish Lake, but these are not
> > meteorite "showers", just meteorite falls.
> >
>
>  I asked:
>
> >     In the press the Chicago fall has been referred to as a "meteorite
> > shower".  Is this acceptable terminology for such an event and has it been
> > adopted as such, by the I.A.U. nomenclature committee?  This has caused
> some
> > discussion on the meteorobs newsgroup.  I have noted that some
> professional
> > papers have used this term to describe the Mocs and Pultusk falls.  Is
> this
> > just literary licence?  Am I correct to assume that these multiple
> meteorite
> > falls are a result of the meteoroid breaking up in the upper atmosphere?
> > Has there ever been a record of a multiple meteoroid entry prior to
> entering
> > the earth's atmosphere?  I guess one cannot rule this out after watching
> > Shoemaker/Levy 9 enter the atmosphere of Jupiter.  Back in the early part
> of
> > the last century, C.A. Chant reported on a "procession of fireballs"
> > crossing the Prairies going east.  Was this a break-up event or was this a
> > multiple entry, same orbit entry?
> >
> > Ed Majden
> > Courtenay, B.C.
> > http://members.shawdot ca/epmajden/index.htm
> >
> >
>
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