[meteorite-list] Bad camera location ... AGAIN
Matson, Robert D.
ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com
Wed Oct 19 17:23:03 EDT 2011
As seems to happen with every new fall, I find significant discrepancies
between reported All-Sky camera locations, and the coordinates that the
camera operators claim for their cameras. In the case of the Soest, Germany,
camera, I did not have the camera coordinates yesterday, so I just used
the center of Soest, Germany. But according to the operator's website:
http://www.chief-impactor.de/meteorcam/index.html
the camera is at 50°42'38"N, 7°22'44"E, 250m. If you plot this on a map,
it is NOWHERE NEAR Soest -- it's in Buchholz, 60 miles to the southwest
of Soest! So which is right for this camera -- the city name or the
coordinates?
--Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: drtanuki [mailto:drtanuki at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:58 PM
To: Matson, Robert D.; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Germany/Netherlands meteor update
Rob and List, It seems that the triangulation leads to a potential drop in Holland: http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/10/soest-germany-fireball-meteor-16oct2011.html Thank you Rob! Dirk...Tokyo
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