[meteorite-list] Bad camera location ... AGAIN

[drtanuki]

Rob and List,
This is often the case.  I would use the coordinates that the camera operator gives.  Sometimes the location given by the camera operator is also incorrect, although I do not think that is the case this time.  Best,  Dirk

I have posted the operators` information as well as the contact names given to me. with links.

--- On Thu, 10/20/11, Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com> wrote:

> From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Bad camera location ... AGAIN
> To: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 6:23 AM
> 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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