Does TCAS SPOT METERORITES

[KLOS]

:( It would be instructive to know

[SpringHeeledJack]

I guess it would depend on the range of TCAS and the speed and density of the objects. I'm assuming that the plume/contrail from the meteors was at the edge of the atmosphere, therefore way higher than any commercial flying. Pretty impressive the way the sonic boom(s) had such force at ground level smashing windows and even doors :ooh:



SHJ

[i am a bee too]

It will only spot meteroits with earth designed transponders fitted and mode c turned on

[MANTHRUST]

Can't decide, should this be on Jetblast or the the Tech forum?

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

The answer is in #3 so it can just be locked now.

[ARNSpoty]

From what i know, it can not.

[DaveReidUK]

can just be locked now

Or at least before we get any more variations on the spelling of meeteyoright. :O

[BOAC]

Imagine the pondering if a meatyoright DID show up on TCAS.....................

[Hotel Tango]

Not to mention ATC's failure to vector the Meteostarboard away from known traffic......

Yep, it's got to be jetblast!

[First.officer]

Does anyone know what action you should take if you get an RA with a meteorite?? :E

[Intruder]

Whatever it tells you to do!

[KLOS]

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[KLOS]

somme tiimes i addd ann extrra lettter

[KLOS]

smetime i trnapose

[KLOS]

,,,, and miss acapital

[KLOS]

and fail to separate words

[vespasia]

Does anyone know what action you should take if you get an RA with a meteorite??

Put your head between your legs.....

But does the meteor get an RA too? (it's not a meteorite till it hits the ground). Perhaps this would be a good way to deflect the ones that might destroy the Earth:8

[keith williams]

Imagine the pondering if a meatyoright DID show up

Does anyone know what they are made of?

Some strange things have been turning up in the freezer sections at TESCO and many other supermarkets recently.

[BOAC]

Per Ardua ad Astra?

[sevenstrokeroll]

oh you funny guys...its a trick question...everyone knows a METEORITE is a meteor that has struck the earth.

now, the trick is prior to being a meteorite, it was a meteor, and I'm assuming a GLOSTER METEOR properly equipped IAW ICAO regulations with an operating 4096 mode c transponder

so, yes the tCAS will pick up the gloster meteor, but after it crashes into the earth, it won't.

oh you british...!

[KLOS]

Sevenstrokeroll,

Post of the century:ok: :D

[Exup]

I think it's an asteroid until it hits the earth then it becomes a meteorite but who knows bulmers has won to night. Sounds the same

[KLOS]

Sevenstrokeroll,

p.s


it may not be long before some eunuch tells you that you have failed to give 'british' (sic) a capital letter. Just ignore, you still win first prize, cousin. :ok:

[nnc0]

Does anyone know what action you should take if you get an RA with a meteorite?

At 30 km/sec
"CLIMB, DESCEND, OH DON'T BOTH.........."

[sevenstrokeroll]

KLOS...century is still new, but thanks sir

oh to be in such grand company!

[CONSPICUITY]

How can a meteorite show up as a Tcas alert unless itself is fitted with tcas and associated transponder system

[Hotel Tango]

CONSPICUITY, you're late for class again!

[OlivierG]

When meteorites will have transponders, TCAS will be able to track these rocks....

[compressor stall]

I think it's an asteroid until it hits the earth then it becomes a meteorite

Not always, but likely was in the Russian case, albeit a very small one.

A meteorite is anything that hits the earth
A meteor is it spearing through the atmosphere
A meteoroid is a small rocky object languishing around in space, now generally accepted to be less than one metre diameter.
An asteroid is a largish (larger than a meteoroid) mainly rocky metallic object in a reasonably regular orbit around the sun
A comet is mainly ice and dust ball, with usually a really elongated
orbit around the sun

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