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Topic: Girl hit by Meteorite!
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mmmoo
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From: London, England
Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-27-2002 01:54 PM
   
Meteorite lands on girls foot!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2218755.stm -Mike |
Werb
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posted 08-27-2002 07:49 PM
Interesting. |
mensax
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From: Virginia
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 08-28-2002 07:10 AM
I have some serious doubts... |
OPOS
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From: Inverness, FL
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-28-2002 08:00 AM
It would seem her foot would be injured, based on some of the other meteoroid impacts we have seen....Tom Edmonds |
tegwilym
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From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-28-2002 01:10 PM
Here is a site about a car that got hit by a meteorite back in 1992.
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/9278/PEEKSKIL.HTM |
Werb
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posted 08-28-2002 01:19 PM
Like I said, interesting. You know what it kinda looks like? One of those "Lava Rocks" you can find in any gas grill. Of course that is my opinion.Mike. |
nasamad
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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 08-28-2002 01:31 PM
I wouldn't have thought that the stone would be going very fast. If it had entered the atmosphere at a fast velocity it would have either burned up or exploded high above the ground. I'd imagine that (if it was a meteorite) it would have entered at a slower speed so by the time it got to a few thousand feet it might as well be dropped from a plane due to the slowing of the denser air.Adam |
OPOS
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From: Inverness, FL
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 08-29-2002 09:05 AM
I am not a physicist, but I believe anything (short of feather or paper) that is dropped from high enough distance will gain sufficient velocity to put a hole in something. I always heard that a penny dropped from the Empire State Building would would actually go through someones hand who was standing on the ground. I don't know if this is true, but we are talking about a rock, therefore Mr. Galileo's theory should be in place.Tom |
Rodina
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From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 08-29-2002 11:23 AM
In a vacuum, yeah, a meteorite (or a penny) will smack the ground with a vegeance, but the atmosphere has other ideas. But the small meteorites that hit usually just hit at whatever their terminal velocity is. A person, even if you hit the atmosphere at orbital velocity, assuming they didn't burn up - would just hit the ground at 120 or so MPH. A small stone like that - which looks like it weighs less than an ounce - wouldn't necessarily go all that fast - and yeah, it would go as fast as if it had been dropped from a plane or any other very high object.[This message has been edited by Rodina (edited August 29, 2002).] |
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