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Article #3711Re: meteor over Italy = Killer meteorite ?
From: K3032E0
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:39
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:39
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Thanx for the information on the SPACEWATCH-progarm| As I am a regular reader of IAUCs and MPCs (I do astrometric work on comets and minor planets myself here in Linz/Austria, observer code 540) I DO know about these spectacular findings with the SPACEWATCH telescope. However, as nobody seems to know the size of the Italy/Croatia-Meteoreite, I'd thought it's best to suppose a size typical for Meteorites dropping on Earth these days: A few Kilogramms, and a few inches in diameter. Of course, meteorids out there are larger than the meteorites dropping down then, but I doubt weather even the SPACEWATCH telescope could detect one (not to mention ALL) of these meteorids soon enough to tell WHERE they will eventually drop down. (Otherwise there's no need to buy samples for my meteorite collection anymore|) If this meteorite *really* crasehed a house and killed two people living there, it may have benn quite large, so the SPACEWATCH may be able to detect such bodies out there. After all, keep up the good work with the SPACEWATCH-telescope and let's hope there will be enough money available to set up a network of these telescopes| Greetings Herbert >> K3032E0@EDVZ.UNI-Linz.AC.AT << >> K3032E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET <<
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