This piece is an important clue on potential cosmic velocity residual at ground level.
I encourage Matt to have this piece X-rayed in a lab (or in a doctors office - any Doc's out there with ideas?) to determine the depth of the penetration. Likely a Doc would get a kick out of this and do it in a couple of hours. 1. We know the height of trees are between 0-10 meters. 2. We know the incoming angle +/- 20 degrees from the famous painting. 3. We have an idea of the speed of a bullet hitting trees and their penetration. 4. We have an idea of the TKW of the iron Give this picture, the diameter of the projectile, a copy of the X-ray and some background to a Police or FBI specialist ballistics investigator and we could get a very good estimate of the velocity. Matt, if you get this X-rayed and we find a ballistics specialist to do the analysis, I'd be willing to write the white paper on this. -mt ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
