[meteorite-list] Huh? PhD has a Meteor? over Houston, TX?

[FRIES, MARC D. (JSC-XI111)]

Theoretically, sure; a bolide could skip out of the atmosphere and return
on a second pass. Or at least I¹ve been told this by people who¹ve spent
more time on it than myself and I tend to believe them.  But in that case,
³slow moving² is not an option.  You would need a very fast-moving,
massive object that A) retains enough velocity to continue on after the
atmosphere slows it down, and B) has enough mass to survive the
atmospheric ablation. And I would expect it to be a mechanically tough
body, since even one fragmentation event would probably be the end of its
journey. You¹d get something more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M8LQ7_hWtE

So we¹re back to a fast object again, certainly not something that someone
can video for more than three minutes like the guy did in Houston. I¹m
certain the Houston event was an airplane.

Cheers,
Marc Fries

On 1/23/15, 1:21 AM, "meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com"
<meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

>On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:25 PM, drtanuki via Meteorite-list
><meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>>List,
>>
>>Huh? Physics/Astronomy PhD has a Meteor? over Houston, TX?
>>Looks like an aircraft contrail to me.  Tell me that I am wrong.
>>Expert explains strange fireball flying over Houston area
>>KHOU
>>A slow moving meteor can make one full swing around the world before
>>crashing or disintegrating. The fireball Sterling captures is similar to
>>the one ...
>>http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2015/01/21/expert-explains-strange-f
>>ireball-flying-over-houston-area/22088689/
>>
>>
>>Dirk Ross...Tokyo
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