Probably just about everyone on the internet has seen this meteor video by now:
I think any Traveller player naturally starts to wonder just where that meteor was compared to the camera. I grabbed the meteor vectors from cneos and computed the trajectory from that
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The closest the meteor was to the camera was about 73.6 km at an altitude of 61.3 km. Velocity through the whole luminous flight was around 40.5 km/sec.
This particular meteor is said to be comet origin, and it appears to have had an aphelion of about 4.74 AU, and perihelion of 0.116 AU. C3 about -365 km²/s².
Basically just a 'what reentry looks like from the ground at >40 km/sec' post.
I think any Traveller player naturally starts to wonder just where that meteor was compared to the camera. I grabbed the meteor vectors from cneos and computed the trajectory from that
. The closest the meteor was to the camera was about 73.6 km at an altitude of 61.3 km. Velocity through the whole luminous flight was around 40.5 km/sec.
This particular meteor is said to be comet origin, and it appears to have had an aphelion of about 4.74 AU, and perihelion of 0.116 AU. C3 about -365 km²/s².
Basically just a 'what reentry looks like from the ground at >40 km/sec' post.
