'Meteorite' Hits Girl

BBC ^ | 8-27-2002

[Joe Hadenuf]

LOL!

[Joe Hadenuf]

Good point....Hehehe

[Joe Hadenuf]

For an object the size shown in the girl's picture, that could be in the 30-40 mph range.

I don't think so. But then again, to get a more accurate picture, the weight and composition of the meteoite must be known. Interesting, the article neglected to mention this. It did say however, that it was rusty looking as if it contained iron. Iron heavy....

[John H K]

...and bit quite a bit hotter than she described it , too.

Actually completely wrong. ANY meteorite of that size (or even quite a bit larger) will be basically at "room temperature" and not "hot" or even "warm" (not any warmer than any dark-colored rock sitting out in the sun") even IMMEDIATELY after impact.

In fact, reports of rocks being "hot" or having fallen in a field and set crops on fire, etc. has been a reliable DEAD givaway of hoaxes or faked reports.

The general public, because of bad science fiction movies, etc., is so convinced that all meteors are hot and burn stuff when the make impact, that when they fake a report they describe meteors as hot when in reality they aren't.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I will agree with that, regarding this size of this specific meteorite.

In any event, I think the story stinks. Of course, I am a very skeptical person...

[Young Werther]

Perry Como's rollin' over in his grave!!!!

[Young Werther]

A bit of trivia. There is a house on Long Island that his been struck by a meteor. Not once but twice! It was during the August showers like the ones we recently experienced. Only this occurred something like 30 years apart! You know like 1950s and 1980s.

[John H K]

A bit of trivia. There is a house on Long Island that his been struck by a meteor. Not once but twice! It was during the August showers like the ones we recently experienced. Only this occurred something like 30 years apart! You know like 1950s and 1980s.

Got a source on that? You get NO meteorites at all from the well known meteor "showers"...they're tiny specs of comet dust that never has the slightest chance of reaching the ground. Land impacting meteorites are simply random events.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Perry Como's rollin' over in his grave!!!!

Glad somebody recognized the tune.   =;^)

I couldn't resist.

[blam]

"A bit of trivia. There is a house on Long Island that his been struck by a meteor. Not once but twice! It was during the August showers like the ones we recently experienced. Only this occurred something like 30 years apart! You know like 1950s and 1980s."

Hmmmm? In the early 60's I used to visit a tavern that was all the way out on the point of LI. It was named the 'Apple Tree.' Is it still there?

[strela]

Looks like a souvenir from a bird with a bad diet.

[RightWhale]

tiny specs of comet dust

The rain of meteorites is fairly steady. Big ones, such as bolides, get blasted to dust in the atmosphere, but the dust filters down to the surface eventually. Over 10 million years, the entire earth would be covered by an inch of meteorite dust, depending on estimates.

[jwh_Denver]

In all the rock fights I had as a kid, they hurt !

Oh, the memories that brings up. Half my time spent as a kid was throwin rocks at something. Got into baseball and won the last game of the World Series and I attribute a great deal of that speed and accuracy on all those billions of rocks I threw.

You can check my story out in the Lawrence KS paper circa 1960. 1 World Series game and I won it.

[MassExodus]

1 World Series game and I won it.

No "KIDDING" - as in THE World Series ?

I leaned about having snow ball fights with pitchers the hard way.
Got into one with this guy built like a cigerrette machine.
He threw a snowball at me from across a field, this thing had no trajectory.
Meaning that, from when it left his hand to when it hit me in the eye, it didn't drop an inch.

There wasn't time to move.

Funny thing was, I could HEAR it coming - kinda of WISSSSSS sound, than SMACK.
I lost sight in that eye for about 20 minutes, some residual retinal damage.

Never have a snow ball fight with a pitcher.

[jwh_Denver]

A frozen rope A?

The noise before it hits. Interesting. That rings a bell way back in my mind that what you're saying is absolutely true. Maybe because I've hit in the head by varying size, weight, and speed missiles. (No pun intended on "rings a bell")

Some retinal damage. Dam.

I would take a LAWS rocket to a snow fight with a genuine pitcher.

[SunkenCiv]

A Blast from the Past. Thanks Blam.

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[trubluolyguy]

Looks like....poo.