Talk:1972 Great Daylight Fireball

Accuracy
Distant observations and calculations were not accurate. Film footage linked in references is from a great distance to one side of the object, perhaps several hundred miles. --Steve D. Gage (talk) 23:55, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

How close did it come in 1997
What calculations were done as to the 1997 return ? - Rod57 (talk) 14:37, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

How close to the surface?
If you look at 48 seconds on this clip, or at 5 seconds on the Wiki video clip, you will see that the meteor passed through that small cloud, pulling a tongue of vapour out with it, just as an aircraft would. This means the meteor was only about 3 km up (say 10,000 ft), and not the 57 km up claimed in the article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBu-yUzWXqg

Tate Tatelyle (talk) 20:57, 19 January 2015 (UTC)


 * The Wiki video clip shows more than the other. It shows the cloud before the meteor emerges; the other deletes that. You can clearly see that there was a feature like a horizontal knife cut in the cloud before the object came out the right side. As to the object pulling a tongue of vapor out, the object is leaving a smoke/vapor trail all across the sky as it travels. It's debatable, but consider the evidence of the military data. If that might have been edited for public consumption, then the video might also have been - and we know the Spanish version was, it was cropped. Government coverups do exist, but not all things are government coverups. Ask yourself, does it really make sense for the government to misreport the altitude of a meteor? The game is to get the truth, even when it's prosaic. Friendly Person (talk) 14:18, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I agree that it makes no sense for the government to misreport the altitude of a meteor, if it was one. If it was a military test flight, then it makes sense. The object came from a direction near Area 51, which was top secret and not known to the public in 1972. Was it a test to hide a flying object in a vapor cone? An ionization cloud created by a fireball is much brighter than a vapor cloud. See Daylight Fireball Elmshorn Video YouTube (from second 26) --Zumthie (talk) 10:26, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

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Size
What does "described as a 500 metres (0.50 km)" mean? Is this diameter or what?64.53.191.77 (talk) 02:10, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

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Copyright
I was looking to add an image to the german Wikipedia, but according to the information on NASA website, the image used in this article is not public domain but copyright by James M. Baker. Since I am not familiar with American copyright laws, I would like to ask for clarification. Thanks a lot!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090302.html

Dugf85 (talk) 05:45, 22 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Yes, the picture does not appear to be in public domain. I've nominated it for deletion on Commons. Ixfd64 (talk) 23:34, 29 September 2021 (UTC)

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Update?
The predicted date August 10, 2022 has passed. An update about that prediction would be desirable. Godot (talk) 13:00, 11 August 2022 (UTC)