Hi,
About HOT ROCKS from space, the glowing meteorites of legend and bad movies,
consider the meteoroid, still in flight immediately after it has reached the
stagnation point where air resistance slows it to a subsonic crawl or even a
near-stop before it then speeds up again in free fall
Hi Sterling and all,
Good post on the hot and cold issue. It's my believe that most
meteorites are cool to the touch when they fall. However and as in life
there are always exceptions. Apparently the Portales Valley New Mexico
fall had specimens that were hot to the touch. One of these
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From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: metlist meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Cc: Dave Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] rock on the noggin story
Hi!
MexicoDoug sent me off-list (very nice of him) a correction about
the notion of the silly temperature of space notion (see below), but I
don't mind taking my licks in public and, though I didn't ask him, I
hope he doesn't mind my quoting his very correct information to help him
spread
Hello Al, Sterling, Blaine (?) and all,
Al had written in part:
Apparently the Portales Valley New Mexico fall
had specimens that were hot to the touch. One of these
meteorites landed on a tarp and melted the tarp.
Unfortunately the finder pulled the melted tarp off
the meteorite. You can
Robert,
Was the plastic beneath the meteorite or on top of it? If beneath, I
would imagine that the shadow cast from the meteorite would actually
cool the plastic from from direct heat of the sun, in which case, the
melting would evidently be caused by the latent heat of the meteorite.
Hi,
I just wondered regarding this much publicized story of this chap just
missing being hit by a meteorite and It was silver and it kind of had red
and black on the back of it and smoke.
and so on...
Has any of our eminent listees emailed the news channels that carried this
story that they do
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