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What I want to know is, do they tend to "bank and climb away"
by eof 8y ago
What I want to know is, do they tend to "bank and climb away"
- walkingolof 8y agoFar more likely that the observer interpreted it the wrong way, happens all the time.
- Gustomaximus 8y agoDo meteors ever dip into the atmosphere, light up, and skip away? Like a skipping stone?
- bo0tzz 8y agoIf the meteor has a shape that could generate lift in some way, I can definitely imagine this happening.
- gnulinux 8y agoIt's very unlikely but definitely possible. If the meteor is fast enough and targets outer earth atmosphere, it an enter outer atmosphere, slow down, light up due to friction, then escape earth atmosphere vertically. The only problem with this scenario is that meteor has to be much faster than Mach 2, unlike what pilots reported. But it's easily possible they saw a Mach 12 meteor and thought it's Mach 2.
- philipkglass 8y agoBasically, yes. Here's one famous example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Great_Daylight_Fireball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Great_Daylight_Fireball http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/image/0903/earthgrazer_ansmet_big.jpg http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~astrolab/mirrors/apod_e/image/0...
- infradig 8y agoIf they go straight thru the atmosphere and out then yes, that is exactly as they would appear.