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
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...
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 e...@meteoritewatch.com wrote:
What?! A meteorite or space
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
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.
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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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
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What?! A meteorite or space debris?
..A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield
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
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car
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From: Eric Wichman e...@meteoritewatch.com
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?
..A meteorite may have
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 easy
Reliability Engineer (and ex-materials engineer)
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Eric Wichman e...@meteoritewatch.com wrote:
From: Eric Wichman e...@meteoritewatch.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
Cottonwood
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Date: Thursday, March
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 portion
: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
Cottonwood
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Cc: radio_ra...@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 1:15 PM
The plastic film might be melted but I can't tell by the
photos
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
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 listed
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