Whatever hit it looks (to me) like it fragmented completely when it hit the windshield. The dashboard doesn¹t have one deep gouge in it like a solid object would inflict; it has a shotgun-spray of spallation damage. Whatever hit the thing wound up as tiny pieces scattered around inside the car. Ice falling from an airplane, perhaps? I still think the ³debris² they show is part of the dashboard.
Oh, and the windshield wasn¹t ³melted² like that genius journo declared. Windshields have two panes of safety glass glued together with a plastic sheet in between. That keeps glass fragments from flying around because they stick to the plastic, just like the photo shows. The ³melted glass² is that plastic sheet stretched all out of shape by getting walloped. All the journo had to do was touch the thing to figure that out. Now I¹m really going to quit getting wrapped up in this stuff and get back to work.. Cheers, MDF On 3/12/09 11:33 AM, "Kashuba" <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric, List, > > I emailed this article to my brother who lives up there. He responded > "Cottonwood is in the flightline for the local airport." > > - John > > John Kashuba > Ontario, California > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric > Wichman > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:07 AM > To: [email protected] > 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'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-sky-destroy > s-car-in/ > > The photos of the supposed "meteorite" look like debris of some sort. > Not like any meteorite I've ever seen. > > Could it be a piece of Satellite, and who was the collector offering > $10K for the "meteorite"? > > Hmm.... > > Regards, > Eric Wichman > Meteorites USA > www.meteoritesusa.com > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
