Hi Adam and List, Happy New Year everyone! Hmmm. Any suspicious-looking persons holding barbecue tongs within throwing distance beside or below the boardwalk?
Darn those pesky charcoal briquettes from space. ;o) Maria > Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:51:55 -0800 > From: raremeteori...@yahoo.com > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OC man believes he's found a meteor > > OC man should stand for Ordinary Con man. He looks as if he had been sniffing > too much sauce over the holidays. He appears to be blown clean out of his > "like" sneakers. Just another idiot chasing press! > > Take Care, > > Adam > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Linton Rohr <linton...@earthlink.net> > To: Greg Stanley <stanleygr...@hotmail.com> > Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Sent: Tue, January 5, 2010 12:36:03 PM > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] OC man believes he's found a meteor > > "It still had, like, little flames coming out of these holes, and it was, > like, glowing red hot." > Uhhh, right. Say no more. > Seems like this trend is on the increase. > Linton > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Stanley" <stanleygr...@hotmail.com> > To: <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 12:09 PM > Subject: [meteorite-list] OC man believes he's found a meteor > > >> >> OC man believes he's found a meteor >> >> >> http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100105/NEWS01/1050355/-1/newsfront2/OC-man-says-he-found-meteor >> >> OCEAN CITY -- Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket? An Ocean City >> man said he did just that. >> >> Quantcast >> >> Derrick Miller was walking along the Boardwalk toward his Seventh Street >> home around 5:20 a.m., as he does every night after finishing his overnight >> taxi shift, when he saw an object falling from the sky at 21st Street and >> the Boardwalk. Miller said he saw the object while glancing over his >> shoulder, keeping a lookout for a fox that lives in the area, one he likes >> to feed hot dogs or doughnuts. >> >> "I saw a shooting star," said Miller, 37. "It landed 15, 20 yards away from >> me in the sand. I walked up to see what it was. It still had, like, little >> flames coming out of these holes, and it was, like, glowing red hot. I >> basically just buried it and marked it so I could come back to get it the >> next day. When I got back, unburied it -- and the sand around it, it looked >> like little shards of glass, real thin glass. It was still warm to the >> touch." >> >> Miller said the rock-like object measures 1 1/2 inches long by 1 inch wide >> and weighs 20 grams. He said it left a foot-wide divot in the sand 6 inches >> deep. >> >> He said the only other person out on the Boardwalk at the time was a police >> officer. "I just happened to be in the right spot at the right time," Miller >> said. >> >> A meteor is a piece of debris that falls to Earth from space. Most are >> pebble-sized, according to NASA. They are categorized either as a "find," >> with no regard to when they arrived, or a "fall" -- which means it's >> confirmed that a person watched the rock plummet to the surface and later >> retrieved it. Given that the earth's surface is about two-thirds water, most >> meteors land in the ocean. Meteors can land on other planetary bodies, too, >> like the moon. >> >> According to Paul Warren, a researcher with the Institute of Geophysics and >> Planetary Physics at the University of California Los Angeles, it's unlikely >> that a fall meteorite would have been burning or glowing at ground level. >> >> "You see, the object comes through the atmosphere in a very brief time. It's >> coming at a cosmic velocity, an interplanetary velocity of about 10 miles a >> second or so," Warren said. "So the outside skin of the object will get very >> hot as it first encounters the atmosphere, but the interior is still very >> cold -- it's coming from space, where its temperature is freezing. >> >> "So, by the time anybody could get to it, that skin, it's probably not going >> to be glowing by the time anybody can go over and look at it. It actually >> cools down as it comes down through the lower atmosphere. Everything is >> slowed greatly coming through the atmosphere unless it's very big. >> >> Quantcast >> >> "If it's a big object, it'll make it down with its cosmic velocity, and >> that'll be potentially catastrophic, with a big impact crater. Meteorites, >> they've been slowed down and they land in a comparatively gentle way," he >> said. >> >> According to The Meteoritical Society, a nonprofit group, there have been a >> total of 1,231 falls recorded globally to date. In the U.S., there were 149 >> since 1810, and in Maryland, only two have ever been confirmed: a 16 >> 1/2-pound meteorite that fell near the Potomac River in Charles County in >> 1825, and a 24-gram object in St. Mary's County north of Point Lookout State >> Park in 1919. >> >> Miller said he still hasn't decided what to do with his meteorite. >> >> "I got a couple calls. One guy wants to buy it. I don't know, I really >> haven't thought about it yet. It's just sitting in my house," he said. >> >> Warren suggested that Miller bring the object to a geologist to confirm its >> origin. He said his Los Angeles lab has bins full of "meteor wrongs," as he >> and his colleagues call them, brought by those hopeful to confirm their >> bolide is bona fide. >> >> "When we look at them, unfortunately, most of the time, people are >> disappointed. Sometimes they're just crushed -- they can't believe it when >> we tell them that their grandfather's old rock he says fell from the sky is >> a piece of limestone," he said. >> >> bsh...@dmg.gannett.com 410-213-9442, ext. >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ >> ______________________________________________ >> http://www.meteoritecentral.com >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
