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**Thomas12400** · 08-11-2012, 10:41 PM

Not an explanation about why your meteorite made no sound, but an interesting discussion about meteorites that do make a sound.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...01/ast26nov_1/
in 1719 astronomer Edmund Halley collected accounts of a widely-observed fireball over England. Many witnesses, wrote Halley, "[heard] it hiss as it went along, as if it had been very near at hand." Yet his own research proved the meteor was at least "60 English miles" high. Sound takes about five minutes to travel such a distance,

Thanks for that!

I was unaware of that explanation. I also heard several meteors towards the end of the very same Leonids meteor shower in 2001. I had stayed up all night to watch them. I couldn't understand why I heard some. I do wear spectacles.

08-11-2012, 10:41 PM	#8
Thomas12400 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 409 Senior Member	Not an explanation about why your meteorite made no sound, but an interesting discussion about meteorites that do make a sound. http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...01/ast26nov_1/ in 1719 astronomer Edmund Halley collected accounts of a widely-observed fireball over England. Many witnesses, wrote Halley, "[heard] it hiss as it went along, as if it had been very near at hand." Yet his own research proved the meteor was at least "60 English miles" high. Sound takes about five minutes to travel such a distance, Thanks for that! I was unaware of that explanation. I also heard several meteors towards the end of the very same Leonids meteor shower in 2001. I had stayed up all night to watch them. I couldn't understand why I heard some. I do wear spectacles.
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