Abstract
ABSTRACTThe inability of untrained observers accurately to measure and report, e.g., the azimuth (bearing) of the point of disappearance, L, of a fireball is universally acknowledged. Even several weeks after the occurrence of a spectacular fireball, however, such observers are able to remember and to point out with some accuracy the position that L occupied in the sky. In this paper, advantage is taken of the layman's ability to recall and to sight at points in the sky like L, in order to develop a method by means of which the azimuth of a point, P, on the apparent path of a meteorite thru the atmosphere can be calculated, provided the observer simply reads and records a single watch‐time, T, on some sunny day subsequent to the fall. This time, T, is the instant when the true Sun either has the same azimuth as P or differs from P in azimuth by 180°.
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