[meteorite-list] Calculating a meteorite orbit

Dieter Heinlein dieter.heinlein at a-city.de
Fri Sep 24 02:02:13 EDT 2004


Hello Pierre-Marie,

some years ago I have written a booklet on the Pribram, Lost City or Innisfree falls,
describing the reduction procedure how to calculate the meteoroid orbit from the
fireball trajectory. It's written in German, but anyhow you will be mostly interested
in the formulas I guess. This booklet is still available from us on request.

Btw, this procedure was used also in the recent case of the successful recovery of
the Neuschwanstein meteorites. But the process is time consuming and not easy to
explain! Don't expect to get an Excel spreadsheet which gives you the result in a
few minutes. It's really hard work....

Best regards

Dieter


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre-Marie PELE" <pierre.pele at voila.fr>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:18 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Calculating a meteorite orbit


> Hello,
>
> I'm searching for an Excel program or a document explaining how to determine the orbit of a meteorite fallen on earth according to
the fact that we know the impact point, trajectory, altitude and speed, pictures of the bolide.
> This technique of orbit calculation was used on Pribram, Lost City or Innisfree for example.
>
> I need your help ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Pierre-Marie Pele
> www.meteor-center.com
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