English girl hit by metorite!

[AggieDave 6]

No shit. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2218755.stm

Kinda odd, thought yall'd get a kick out of it.

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[moodyskydiver 0]

That is pretty interesting.

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[nws01 0]

ChromeBoy must be back in town! A few rocks came with him! The rock was all shiny and stuff!

[jams 0]

Reminds me of Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. What are to probabilities?? Where is Zonneywoop anyway...

[lewmonst 0]

i'll spot and drop the rocks... anyone want to catch????

[Viking 0]

that was really poorly written article!

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Marc
otherwise known as Mr.Fallinwoman....

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How about 42?

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How about 42?

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How about 42?

[cloud9 0]

It was probably a ligt weight that ran out of lead and tried a few rocks in the pocket trick, and lost one.

[mre 0]

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Noticing it was "quite hot", she showed it to her father Niel.

I understand that just like a skydiver, a meteorite would not be hot when reaching the ground. Of course, the story may still be true, just that she was imagining the part about the stone being hot.

/ Martin

[jumpy 0]

But its had to enter the atmosphere so that would heat it up?... or are you saying that falling it would be air cooled..

[BPO 0]

a big meteorite would be steamin' hot (and hurt quite a lot more if it would fall on your foot)... so why wouldn't a small meteorite be a little hot?

[fudd 0]

I believed small meteorites burned up and vaporized in the atmosphere, so I find it hard to believe that this story is true. I would imagine that it would have penetrated her foot. Then again, I'm no expert and could be wrong.
The article seems to be less accurate than a poorly written article about skydiving...guess journalists don't have to much knowledge on meteorites either. Would sure like to see an science article about this...

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How about 42?

ahh... the meaning of life!!!!!

[mre 0]

Actually there seems to be some controversy here. If there is a consensus it seems to be that meteorites are generally cold, but that some special circumstances could be conceived under which they would be hot.

Here is a thread discussing the exact incident reported above.

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=sv&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=akh01m%24man%241%40news.efn.org&rnum=11&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522hot%2Bmeteorite%2522%26start%3D10%26hl%3Dsv%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Dakh01m%2524man%25241%2540news.efn.org%26rnum%3D11

Here is an informational page.

http://branchmeteorites.com/metmyths.html

And the topic is also discussed here.

http://www.meteorobs.org/maillist/msg21389.html

[BPO 0]

So.. what you're saying is that all movies including big meteorites on fire should reconsider their way of representing meteorites?
Just kiddin' .. learning something new every day..

[nacmacfeegle 0]

And in space, they don't make a roaring noise either...

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[BPO 0]

Gee.. well.. It's a good thing you guys aren't filmmakers.. you'd be making really boring movies cold silent stones falling from the sky..

Next thing you know you'll be telling me they don't fall that fast and aren't that solid..

Cheers!

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I find a fluffy substance in my belly button from time to time...anybody else experienced this strange phenomenon ?

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"I find a fluffy substance in my belly button from time to time...anybody else experienced this strange phenomenon ? "
Me too. I've been saving mine(see attached pic). My theory is that it came off a sweater, so I am going to recycle it by knitting it back into another sweater.

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we had a few years back a man all alone on the river who had a beer bottle smash his cooler. He was in the middle of the river and way out of throwing range from the cliffs lining the river. The only explanation he had was that a plane had flown over a few moments before. It must have been thrown from the plane.

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On the St. Johns river, there was 3 fishermen in a boat underneath a railroad track. They were quietly fishing and a train passed over the trestle. All of a sudden, a load of sewage fell on their heads. Apparently, railroads routinely dump raw sewage onto the railbed. Unfortunately, they were over a bridge this time.

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