I was called out once in a similar case to Landcaster, Pa. Loud explosion,
penetrated window and dashboard etc. Had to get very contorted to search the
dash with all my inspection mirrors and forcepts. Found a fragment in the
bottom of the plemum which was a gray matrix that s looked lik
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:32:18 -0500, you wrote:
>The entire fragment is no more than one inch in
>the longest dimension, heavily battered and folded.
>The odds favor the wood chipper or the jet engine
>where parts may be in high kinetic energy states of
>motion.
Also note the odd weight liste
It's no doubt, not a meteorite... I see the "letters", but can't make
much out of it.
Alien writing: www.meteoritesusa.com/images/letters.jpg
Oh, and about news stories being unreliable... I would have to agree you
can't expect to draw conclusions or know everything from news stories,
look at
stretched from the
> impacting object.
> > The photo of the 'debris' inside the car shure
> does not look like a meteorite or a re-entered piece of
> space junk. It also does not look like a blade from a big
> wood chipper like the last few 'meteorites' hitti
Hi, List,
Look at the photo. At full size on my monitor,
it is scaled about 10x life size. Clearly visible on the
fragment are the Roman characters "EJ" and possibly
"I," about 0.5 - 0.6 mm high and what appears to be
a smaller line of type as well, both far too small to
be anything but a port
f space junk. It also does not look like a blade from a
big wood chipper like the last few 'meteorites' hitting cars and houses.
Pat Brown
Hardware Reliability Engineer (and ex-materials engineer)
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Eric Wichman wrote:
From: Eric Wichman
Subject: [meteorite-l
March 12, 2009 12:05 PM
To: Kashuba; meteoritelist
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
Cottonwood
I have a question.
If this is simply something that fell off of an airplane then why is it so
unrecognizable?
I would think parts that fall off planes would be ea
On Thu, 3/12/09, Eric Wichman wrote:
> From: Eric Wichman
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
> Cottonwood
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 9:06 AM
> What?! A meteorite or space debris?
>
&
uba
> Ontario, California
>
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Eric
> Wichman
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:07 AM
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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9:07 AM
> To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
> Cottonwood
>
> What?! A meteorite or space debris?
>
> "..A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a
> Cottonwood couple
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Wichman
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:07 AM
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
Cottonwood
What?! A meteorite or space debris?
"..A meteorite may have been what s
ot;
To:
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
Cottonwood
Yeah I doubt the object is a meteorite either. But it does pose the
question. What the heck is it?!
My guess is space debris from a satellite or possible
Yeah I doubt the object is a meteorite either. But it does pose the
question. What the heck is it?!
My guess is space debris from a satellite or possible some industrial
accident, or possibly even from passing a plane. The object in the
photos does appear to have been heated some way though. I
I offered $10K for the first kilo of "Westchester"
It is extremely doubtful the object that hit the car is a meteorite.
Best/ d,
On Mar 12, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Eric Wichman wrote:
What?! A meteorite or space debris?
"..A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a
Cott
Eh... This happened 26 Feb, but didn¹t become a news item until the $10k
offer. Danger, Will Robinson...
And that debris looks like part of the car dashboard or something to me.
Man-made, anyways.
On 3/12/09 9:06 AM, "Eric Wichman" wrote:
> What?! A meteorite or space debris?
>
> "..A mete
What?! A meteorite or space debris?
"..A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a
Cottonwood couple's sport utility vehicle late last month, destroying
much of the dashboard and melting some of the glass..."
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/mar/12/unidentified-object-from
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