Hello All, ...Or not.
http://www.wcmessenger.com/update/?p=2566 The whole story is fishy, though. If a stony meteorite hit a cement driveway, it would likely shatter, and would almost certainly not remain embedded at the bottom of the hole/chip it made. An iron, might be strong enough to withstand such an impact. But this fellow was looking at stony material in the bottom of the hole - and his comment was that it was too soft and not magnetic? First-off, based on his comments, it could easily be an achondrite. This seems unlikely, though, because it would probably be a fairly soft meteorite if that were the case, and would be more likely to simply shatter upon impact. After seeing a larger photo of the hole...there's no way an achondrite did that. http://www.wcmessenger.com/update/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC_00043.jpg Looks a little more like someone drilled that hole than anything else. Weird stuff. I doubt an iron would even have enough kinetic energy to punch a hole clean through a slab of cement - at least not an iron that small. Regards, Jason On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Meteorites USA <[email protected]> wrote: > Meteorite punches hole in driveway > http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/content/EkZlVEAuupiEdryHWm.php > ______________________________________________ > Visit the Archives at > http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
