[meteorite-list] Help, your opinion needed

[Tom Knudson]

Chris wrote;
" The  illusion of fireball nearness is very strong"

Your not kidding, I once saw a fireball that I looked like you could reach
out and touch it.  I knew better, I knew it was still miles high and many
miles away, but it sure looked like it was a few feet away.
Thanks, Tom
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Help, your opinion needed


> While the object you have sounds interesting, and may or may not be a
> meteorite, I'd wager that what you saw was actually a good hundred miles
> away. I get many witness reports for fireballs that insist the event
skimmed
> the trees, came down in the field across the street, etc. In no case I've
> examined have these reports been remotely accurate, and I know of no case
> ever where a fireball was seen to impact the ground near an observer. The
> illusion of fireball nearness is very strong.
>
> I wouldn't normally try to identify a meteorite from a photograph. I would
> say that I've never encountered a meteorite with enough iron to show as
> visible inclusions that wasn't also noticeably ferromagnetic.
>
> Chris
>
> *****************************************
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
> http://www.cloudbait.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jwb7772 at netzero.net>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:14 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Help, your opinion needed
>
> > In 1957 I witnessed a fireball come down from the very start(I was
looking
> > in the right place) to it's finish.  In fact it came so close I thaught
it
> > might hit me, but it slightly arked up and flew over head at about 50
feet
> > between me and a telephone poll, droping multi colored teardrops behind
> > it.  It skimed the tree tops two blocks away and landed.  It was the
most
> > AWSUM thing I have ever seen, at that time.  Well some years later I
> > searched the area and found what looked like a cinder rock.  It was all
> > burned and even had a yellow-green crust in spots.  It was not magnetic
> > but was quite heavy.  So I kepted it all of these years thinking it was
> > not a meteorite.
> >     Well today I cut it open to find bright metal, looks like nickel,
and
> > a few white clats (moon type?)
> >     So maybe it could me a meteorite.  I also thought impactasite, but
> > from whare?  It has mostly a gray color and sections are of a olive drab
> > green color and look quite glassy.  And in the holes there seems to been
a
> > green glassy shine.  If anyone has any idea as to what it sounds like
> > please let me know your thoughts.  If anyone is interested enough I
would
> > be happy to send you a few pictures.  Thanks Jim
>
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