Meteorite Hunters Find the West Texas Fireball 64
An anonymous reader writes "A fireball streaked over Austin, Texas on February 15 producing sonic booms and startling people for hundreds of miles. The video of the event was shown on national television and viewed by thousands of people on the Net. The first news reports speculated that the fireball might have been debris from a February 13th collision between two satellites over Siberia but space experts said that the object was probably a meteor. Now this has been confirmed: experienced meteorite hunters located a strewnfield about 120 miles north of the filming site of the Austin cameraman and have recovered over 100 freshly fallen meteorites."
Pure speculation... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Pure speculation... (Score:2, Interesting)
Posting to undo my accidental offtopic mod. Sorry.
People continue to deny that this is an issue, but it happens often enough that it clearly is. I have noticed that it especially becomes a problem when using trackpads.
CmdrTaco: Please can you fix this now? Please?
Re:Pure speculation... (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Qualification (Score:4, Interesting)
The 5 meter ball will make a direct hit on Santa wiping out any Elves within a considerable radius.
The Iron atom on the other hand will start hiting single atoms/molecules. Suppose you could somehow freeze every atom in it's place before the Iron atom hit the atmosphere until it, hit the ground. (go away chemists).
If you have ever played pool you will understand how increadibly acurate that first contact the Iron atom makes would need to be to hit a five meter target on the ground.
Re:Pure speculation... (Score:2, Interesting)
Looks like your subscription has expied, as had mine until just now...
midwest farms a productive source of meteorites (Score:4, Interesting)