If it were a manmade object from the early years of space travel, may be a rocket stage or something like this from the Apollo era, and it would impact, and some debris of this would survive, I would LOVE to have this artifact in my collection... :-)
Alex Berlin/Germany -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:05:32 -0800 > Von: Jason Utas <[email protected]> > An: Richard Kowalski <[email protected]>, Meteorite-list > <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] {MPML} 2010 AL30: Bright (14th mag) > newly-discovered close approaching object > Hello Richard, All, > 60 feet or meters - either way you're getting a crater unless you get > a spectacular strewnfield for some reason (I'm thinking on a > Gibeon-ish scale, which we all know is unique). 60 meters would > likely be larger than the Canyon Diablo impact, depending on the > impactor's composition and velocity, and you wouldn't want to be > within a hundred miles of that one - if you value your general health > and eardrums. A 60 foot impactor, on the other hand - well, again, it > depends on its size and composition. Some size estimates for the > Meteor Crater impactor run as low as 80 feet. > - So you probably don't want to be close enough to see it. The > shockwave at "a few 10s of kilometers" would be devastating. > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/meteorcr.html > > Regards, > Jason > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Richard Kowalski > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Richard Kowalski wrote: > >> > >> Bill, > >> > >> I know of a large number of meteorite hunters and collectors that would > be > >> rushing towards the impact zone for an object this size and smaller. > >> > >> I'm not sure how close I'd want to be to a 60 meter... > > > > > > Sorry I meant 60 foot > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Visit the Archives at > > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
