[meteorite-list] HUGE Meteor Sighting in Cottonwood AZ - Stats from fall

[Ruben Garcia]

Hi all,

Jim it's pretty much the same with any meteor event. The truth is
unless we have good Doppler information or someone personally
witnessed a meteorite strike a house or a car, or there is a stone
found - there's not much reason to waste time looking.

Most people (me included) thought the Whetstone Mountains meteor event
was not worth looking for - It took me over a month to even start the
hunt. I wish I'd have started sooner.

Also, the lack of Sonic reports may be due to the fact that it landed
where no one lives and not that it didn't produce a sonic boom.

I've been doing this a long time and I think the bottom line is this:
If someone finds a meteorite, just one that went though a roof - most
hunters would go try to find more - me included.


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Jim Wooddell
<jim.wooddell at suddenlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Shawn,  This is a fairly normal event.  Nothing much to get excited
> about.  The calculation is an error.    If the 40.8km is the burn out I
> doubt anyone will waste much time on this one.
> No sonic reports to speak of and that is also not a good sign. The UT is
> questionable too!
>
> Jim
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> On 4/13/2014 12:57 PM, shawnalan at meteoritefalls.com wrote:
>>
>> Hello Listers
>>
>> I found some info on the fall and here is some stats...
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>> vel 667.2 km/s beg 135.8 km end 40.8 km
>>
>> Now could a meteorite come from the Vel speed? I mean thats really fast
>> 667.2km, or that could be a mistake, which I think it is? With the
>> meteor ending at 40km there is a possibility there could be some stones
>> on the ground. And after looking at the video I could see the meteor for
>> around 4 seconds and at the end the meteor got brighter.
>>
>> more stats below...
>>
>> Shawn Alan
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>> time 20140413 3.0738 hours
>>    lat  32 26 22.632 =  32.4396 deg
>>    lon 253 16 38.856 = 253.2775 deg
>>     ht 40.775 b -1.38207 7.62031 -17.37020 -7.68054
>>         alp 300.962 +/-  0.462 deg
>>         del  70.037 +/-  0.310 deg
>>       v_inf 667.240 +/- 977.292 km/s
>>       v_avg 667.240 +/- 977.292 km/s
>>                                         a  -0.002 +/-  0.006 AU
>>           e 493.776 +/- 1444.978
>>        incl  85.761 +/-  3.793 deg
>>       omega 168.225 +/-  0.185 deg
>>    asc_node  22.922 +/-  0.000 deg
>>         v_g 667.102 +/- 977.428 km/s
>>         v_h 668.691 +/- 976.474 km/s
>>     alp_geo 301.065 +/-  0.482 deg
>>     del_geo  70.004 +/-  0.311 deg
>>       q_per   0.982 +/-  0.001 AU
>>       q_aph  -0.986 +/-  0.011 AU
>>      lambda  30.964 +/-  1.513 deg
>>        beta  78.151 +/-  0.165 deg
>>   true anom  11.775 +/-  0.165 deg
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>>         T_j   hyp
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