djmullen@tds.net wrote: >>From The Register: http://www.theregister.com/2006/09/12/nz_meteor/ > > Exploding meteor wows NZ > Sonic boom, purple and red flames, the works > By Lester Haines > > > No debris has been recovered, so Jenny McCormick of the Auckland-based Stardome Observatory postulated that the aerial display might have been caused by "a piece of space junk like old satellites". Here we go again - sigh -. No, this was no re-entry: descriptions don't fit and there is no decay candidate. It was a meteor. Many bright meteors don't leave debris (meteorites). And even if they do, it is often hard to find. - Marco :-( ----- Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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