[meteorite-list] Re:New english meteorite? Think about this!

[Mark Miconi]

Here in Arizona we have a law that makes it a felony to fire a gun into the air randomly.   Now I know common sense would dictate to most intelligent people that firing a gun into the air is stupid and dangerous. The reason we have the law is that a young girl was killed in Phoenix by a bullet that was coming back down to earth after being fired into the air. It was a .44 caliber bullet 240 grain I believe. The news did not report the angle of entry into the girl but it did say it entered the top of her head and stopped inside her brain and killed her instantly. They named the law after the girl...it was big news here some years back   My point is that a .44 mag has a muzzle velocity of roughly 2200 feet per second and is carrying a lot of foot pounds of energy when it is fired and loses velocity as it travels. Fired straight up it would travel roughly a mile or more before tumbling back to earth at terminal velocity.   This girl in England was supposedly hit by a meteorite and sustained NO damage to her foot? Come on! I am no mathmetician but even at terminal velocity that rock would have/should have penetrated her foot. I do not know the weight of the rock she found but traveling at terminal velocity from even 5000 ft it SURELY would have caused some REAL damage to human flesh even through a shoe.   It seems incredible that anyone could believe this story. What is worse is that someone would report this story.   Life must be rather boring in her part of the world. It is also sad that the media would think so little of the general population there to think they would be gullible enough to believe such a story.   Just my opinion on this story and meant disrespect to only the media.   Mark M. Phoenix AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: Chuck To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Meteorite List Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 11:46 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New english meteorite?   Hello Charlie, and List,   I once read a study about such things happening. The study went on to say that this occurrence happens more often than one might think.   One of the theories states that a major reason might be from " Dust Devils, Water Spouts, Tornadoes, Hurricanes and from Cyclonic Winds with enough power to toss and hold them aloft carrying them as there last stop, in the Jet Stream waiting to fall down.   It was also mentioned that this might be a possible cause of major aircraft failures.   Thank you for your time in reading this, should we all start now wearing Hard Hat's ?    " The Sky is falling, The Sky is falling ! ".   Chuck Jenkins   [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------Original Message-------   From: Charlie Devine Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:05:21 AM To: Dave Harris Cc: metlist Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New English meteorite?   Dave, Regarding things falling from clear skies, let's not forget rains of fish and frogs. Sometimes by the hundreds. Strange but true..... Heads up! Charlie ____________________________________________________   IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here