Proof of a round earth?

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NTheGreat

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Re: Proof of a round earth?
« Reply #150 on: January 14, 2009, 05:08:35 AM »
Just had a little poke around on the Internet. Seems some people managed to get a spectral analysis of the Sudan meteorite, although I don't know if anyone has found a piece that survived re-entry yet.

After positional information, the next challenge was to obtain spectral data -- information on the color of the object, which would help to classify it and determine its origin. The first I heard of such data being captured successfully was from this item on the MPML by Alan Fitzsimmons and coworkers at Armagh Observatory: "We obtained optical spectra of 2008 TC3 using the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope and ISIS spectrograph on Oct 6.93-6.94UT. The spectra cover the range 546-995nm at a resolution of 4nm. Initial analysis of the spectra via comparison with the solar analogue 16CygB reveals a featureless reflectance spectrum with no indication of the silicate absorption feature longward of 800nm."