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Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
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#12"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt." I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...
Desert Fireball Network, and less public precursor projects have been doing this for a while now: * https://dfn.gfo.rocks/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network * https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/desert-fireball-network-te...
From the wikipedia link:
> The dark flight trajectory of a meteoroid is significantly affected by the atmospheric winds, especially by the jet stream. As a result, the meteorite fall position can be shifted by up to several kilometers compared to a scenario with no winds.
That network is mostly interested in where it falls, not where it came from. A few degrees for finding an origin is a huge variation.
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#14Scene one of a Steven Spielberg movie.
If you follow disclosure, scene 1 occured a long, long time ago...
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Desert Fireball Network, and less public precursor projects have been doing this for a while now: * https://dfn.gfo.rocks/ * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network * https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/desert-fireball-network-te...
From the wikipedia link: > The dark flight trajectory of a meteoroid is significantly affected by the atmospheric winds, especially by the jet stream. As a result, the meteorite fall position can be shifted by up to several kilometers compared to a scenario with no winds. That network is mostly interested in where it falls, not where it came from. A few degrees for finding an origin is a huge variation.
Planetary scientists are motivated to physically examine freshly fallen near pristine samples, yes. They are also keenly interested in origins, intra or extra solar system, relationships to known showers et al.
The less public precursors were and still have an interest in both projected targets and sources.
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#17Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof?
Who should one contact if this happens?
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#18"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt." I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...
This is absolutely trivial as long as any fixed ground objects are visible in a camera and does not at all require some sub-pixel precision.
It's trivial to draw a line between some fixed points and extrapolate back to an origin if there's no external forces acting on the asteroid. But there is - planetary gravity, the moon, potentially the sun heating one side of it, atmospheric wind, weather, etc make a big difference. That makes it harder.
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This is absolutely trivial as long as any fixed ground objects are visible in a camera and does not at all require some sub-pixel precision.
It's trivial to draw a line between some fixed points and extrapolate back to an origin if there's no external forces acting on the asteroid. But there is - planetary gravity, the moon, potentially the sun heating one side of it, atmospheric wind, weather, etc make a big difference. That makes it harder.
That's basics of meteor observation. As long as camera didn't move, you can plot the track against the stars and time is known. Then with two tracks from different locations, orbit is determined.
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#20Did someone pay him for the rare meteorite? At least enough to fix the roof? Who should one contact if this happens?
The Vogon hyperspace development council.