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'Meteorite' Hits Girl
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| 8-27-2002
Posted on 08/27/2002 11:50:09 AM PDT by blam
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Hmmmmm (It's always something!)
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posted on
08/27/2002 11:50:09 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
I would buy a lotto ticket if I were her.
To: blam
Stones fall from sky: Women hit hardest.
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posted on
08/27/2002 11:52:04 AM PDT
by
js1138
To: blam
Hmmm...
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posted on
08/27/2002 11:53:10 AM PDT
by
Junior
To: blam
My only problem with this is why is she not in the hospital. As meteorites are traveling at great speed. It should have blown her foot away....In my opinion....
To: blam
To: Joe Hadenuf
...and bit quite a bit hotter than she described it , too.
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posted on
08/27/2002 11:54:47 AM PDT
by
Skibane
To: aBootes
fyi
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posted on
08/27/2002 11:55:37 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: blam
Two things -
"We will have it mounted in a glass presentation case so she can keep it for the rest of her lifeNot likely, if true that chunk of ferous will be in a museum somewhere probably and they'll pocket a check.
If it IS a meteor, shouldn't it have past through her foot on it's way to making a crater about 2 feet across?
To: Joe Hadenuf
She's lucky it is small. If it were the size of a brick it would have broken bones.
To: Joe Hadenuf
My thoughts, 90 seconds later ....
To: blam
Maybe I missed something here, but has anybody seen the move Armageden or simply seen what a penny can do to something dropped from a great height. I mean if it hit her foot it would go right through, wouldn't it. Somethings a little fishy about this.
To: RightWhale
That should have put a hole in her foot the size of a 357 exit wound....
To: blam
bump
To: RightWhale
I wonder if this may have 'fallen off' the asteroid that just flew by earth. Can we expect more?
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posted on
08/27/2002 11:59:16 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Joe Hadenuf; Skibane
Y'all might want to google on (meteorite hit person). It's happened before, and both the impact velocity and the surface temperature of the objects is much less than you seem to expect.
To: MassExodus
Maybe she was wearing her steel toe pumps.
To: RightWhale; HELLRAISER II
See #16
To: blam
The stone could have come from Mars, according to expert on Earth impacts Dr Benny Peiser, of Liverpool John Moores University....and it could have come from any number of other places, too. What gives with that inference?
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posted on
08/27/2002 12:01:28 PM PDT
by
dubyagee
To: blam
Good point. The asteroid was possibly not a solitary body, but part of a swarm like burned-out comets.
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