[meteorite-list] Dumb Questions About Meteors & Meteorites

[GeoZay at aol.com]

>>Take a look at this Leonid photo. As you  can see after the incandescence 
there's a small smoke train shooting out  from the tip of the meteor. Is 
that in fact the smoke train from the  particle/meteoroid just before 
entering dark flight? Or was this just the  last bit of the meteoroid 
burning up?<<

I'd say it was just the  last bit of the meteoroid burning up.  It was 
dimming and the camera caught  what little exposure it could at that point.
GeoZay