Re: [meteorite-list] B.O.: Purina Iron Chow unlikely; Bloomington Airport probably ruled out

2007-03-10 Thread Steve Dunklee
Anything launched from Purina would have been traveling well over 200mph so if it was only 60 mph we are talking a launch distance of might be 40 feet of free fall which means somebody threw it at the window. Cheers! Steve - Don't pick lemons. See all the

Re: [meteorite-list] B.O.: Purina Iron Chow unlikely; Bloomington Airport probably ruled out

2007-03-07 Thread ensoramanda
Hi all, Grinding flour can involve very large rollers spinning I believe...I remember a stone getting into the grain on my Fathers farm and shooting backwards out of the rollers like a bullet when it jammed...a piece of old machinery might well do the same. But if it could travel that

[meteorite-list] B.O.: Purina Iron Chow unlikely; Bloomington Airport probably ruled out

2007-03-06 Thread Matson, Robert
Hi Sterling, Well-sleuthed! I think we can rule out a cat food factory as a likely source for a flying piece of metal slag... ;-) I tried another route: I investigated flights coming in for a landing at Bloomington (KBMI) that Monday morning. There was only one at the approximate time of the