Ah found a meaty-yer!
So would this be what the insurers call "an act of God" ?
Talk about extraordinary bad luck----
It's Bush's fault!
Just thought I'd get that in there before Katie Couric did.
10 mm bolide? Questionable. That might be the largest remining piece since a bolide would usually be a stony meteorite that explodes with a tremendous flsh of light and sometimes a sound. The pieces reaching the ground would not be hot. However, a piece of reentering space vehicle could well be hot.
Ah found a meaty-yer!
If it's big enough, which it sounds like, he could sell the meteor for more than enough to build a new cottage and his hospital bills.
Sorry teacher, but a meteor burned my homework.
Troisdorf/Bonn (dpa) - which impact small meteorites has after conviction of the Ermittler an unusual fire in a Schrebergarten hut in Troisdorf with Bonn caused. ÂAfter consultation with experts a projectile from the universe is "the most probable cause of fire", confirmed the police victory castle (North Rhine-Westphalia). All other causes could be excluded after comprehensive determinations. The rock, which had heated itself with the entrance into the terrestrial atmosphere, was however not found.
After representation of the police observed reliable witnesses also "an unusual leuchterscheinung in the sky directly before the fire emergence observes, which as small glowing body direction soil had moved". By the fire, which already occurred on 8 October, a 77-jaehriger man, who was in the hut, suffered fire injuries at face and hands. A deliberate fire putting could have been excluded, communicated the police. Also technical causes or a chemical self inflammation would not be applicable.
The witness data concerning the optical phenomenon would have arranged the Ermittler to speak with the observatory Bochum. From there was communicated, "that the earth at the event time in the proximity of a meteorite fragment field was and the entrance of particles into the terrestrial atmosphere was to be expected". These particles, which usually do not reach the ground, but in the atmosphere glowing, could have arrived isolated nevertheless up to the soil and have released by its large heat also a fire.
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10 mm is not even as big as a pea.
It's like the woman who owned and was in the condo when the NY Yankee pitcher's small plane crashed into it a couple of weeks ago. There was a thread that pointed out that it was the same woman who was hit by a street lamp a few years ago when a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon broke free. Someone posted that it was God's way of telling her she really really should move out of Manhattan.
