I believe the general feeling is that this is an unusual slag, but it isn't
entirely certain. There is a steel plant in the area, and slag sometimes
drops onto roads. The fact that this piece hit a car allowed its fall angle
to be estimated at 20°, which isn't possible for a meteorite of this size
unless it bounced off a cliff or there was a hurricane at the time.
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Question
Hi all,
I find this very interesting (below) - is anyone on the list "in
the
know" on this event and what it was about?
--
Getafe: On the afternooon of June 21, 1994, Jose Martin and his wife,
Vicenta Cors, were driving in Spain from Madrid to Marbella. As they
zoomed
past the town of Getafe, a three-pound rock smashed through their
windshield
on the driver's side, ricocheted off the dashboard, and bent the steering
wheel, breaking the little finger on Martin's right hand. It then flew
between the couple's heads and landed on the back seat. Other than the
broken little finger, they were okay. The stone was chemically analyzed
but
cannot be confirmed as extraterrestrial on this basis. Eighty-one
additional
fragments weighing a total of 55 kg were collected from the area.
--
This mentions 55 Kg of fragments being collected. If they were'nt
meteoritic, what was going on? Anyone know? ...here is another link
on this:
http://tierra.rediris.es/merge/getafe.html
Comments welcome....
Michael
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