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Hodges (Alabama) Meteorite Strike (59th anniversary)
Encyclopedia of Alabama ^
| September 26, 2012
| By John C. Hall
Posted on 11/30/2013 8:46:16 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I started to comment after reading the excerpt. Glad I clicked the link and read the rest of the story. Any day that I can keep from appearing even dumber than I am is a good day.
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posted on
11/30/2013 8:53:35 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The most famous object ever struck by a meteor is a
Chevy
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posted on
11/30/2013 8:56:54 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Benghazi investigation update: "The plot thickens, like Hillary Clinton's ankles.." (longfellow")
To: Brad from Tennessee
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:00:11 AM PST
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
To: Graybeard58
What would you have said?
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:07:42 AM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: Brad from Tennessee
And thus the backdrop for today’s Iron Bowl.
(Oh, and this related Public Service Announcement: the state of Alabama will be closed today from approximately 2-6pm local time. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:08:13 AM PST
by
alancarp
To: Brad from Tennessee
I was 14 when this meteor hit the woman. I remember hearing that it could be seen in Houston, that it lit up the eastern sky. I missed it if it did.
My husband found a round rock that he has always thought was a meteorite, how can you tell?
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:09:43 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: ken5050
I stepped onto my back porch (northeast of Atlanta) at dusk that day and saw that bolide. Biggest I had ever seen. Green, sparkly, smokey.
Blew my mind when I later learned it had landed so far north. It must have been much further up in the atmosphere than it appeared at the time.
To: eddie willers
Reading my earlier post, I imagine it is confusing.
The bolide that I saw was the one that hit the Chevy in 1992 (the Peekskill meteorite)...not the Alabama one.
To: Ditter
They’re 5X heavier than a regular rock, and black.
Is there any unusual perturbation of the Oort cloud going on right now?
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:27:25 AM PST
by
txhurl
To: Ditter
Check the rock types in the vicinity. If the sample doesn’t match any of them, have a qualified geologist take a look. Though be careful of State appropriation schemes.
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:31:16 AM PST
by
onedoug
To: null and void
I was about to comment that the rock should rightfully belong to the woman who was hit by it, then I read that it was the actual owner of the house that suffered financial damage. The court eventually awarded ownership to the woman who was hit.
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:44:36 AM PST
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Graybeard58
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To: onedoug; Ditter
Magnet, magnet, magnet!
If one of those strong little shiny “rare earth” magnets doesn’t stick to it, it’s not a meteorite.
Also, if it is porous, or has gas holes like lava, then it isn’t a meteorite (and a magnet won’t stick.)
The exceptions to these simple rules (actually, just the magnet rule) are so rare that experienced meteorite finders never find a non-iron meteorite in their entire careers.
To: Brad from Tennessee
I am right now sitting at work less than a quarter mile from where this happened. The old house burned about 10 years ago, Comet drive in across the street closes probably 20 years ago. The Comet gas station, restaurant, bait shop, pawn shop and convenience store is still open tho....
Got one of those nice roadside markers designating the spot a an “Historic” place. Hell, don't laugh. It's a small town and we get our kicks when we can.
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:55:18 AM PST
by
saleman
To: Graybeard58
So you were right, at least the court agrees with you.
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posted on
11/30/2013 9:59:31 AM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: Atlas Sneezed
experienced meteorite finders never find a non-iron meteorite in their entire careers. Yep. If they weed out everything that isn't magnetic, they will never "find"/recognize a carbonaceous chondrite...
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posted on
11/30/2013 10:02:08 AM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: saleman
I remember when Life did a story about this.
That issue is still up in the attic somewhere.
Lucky lady to live after getting hit like that.
Wonder what became of the meteorite.
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posted on
11/30/2013 10:40:56 AM PST
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: Atlas Sneezed
I tried a magnet, didn’t stick but I have a larger round thing that the magnet did stick to.
I found the larger one on the Yorktown Virginia battle field so I am pretty sure it is a cannon ball..........
who knows...... :)
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posted on
11/30/2013 11:04:47 AM PST
by
Ditter
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Thanks Brad from Tennessee.
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posted on
11/30/2013 11:09:18 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Harold Shea
Wonder what became of the meteorite. That's the type of thing that should be placed "on permanent display at the Alabama Museum of Natural History at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa." But that's just my opinion. :-)
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posted on
11/30/2013 11:15:56 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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