"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote in message
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> A bigger problem is that very few people (if any) have ever observed
> atmospheric disturbances caused by meteors, so it's going to be hard to
> check whether the rendering is remotely realistic. None of the meteors
> that I've seen have caused any observable atmospheric disturbances.

It seems to me that you would have to be pretty darn close to the meteor to
actually see the shockwave, and if you were that close, your ability to see
it would still depend on several other factors: 1) Light; 2) Atmospheric
conditions; 3) The limits of human field-of-vision in tracking, at close
range, an object moving at supersonic speed; 4) The natural tendency to
duck.

I do have an mpeg of a condensation ring forming around a jet as it attains
the speed of sound. It is, of necessity, short.

--
simon.A

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