Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-30 Thread Steve Dunklee via Meteorite-list
and not substantiated. Cheers Steve From: Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list To: MEM Cc: "Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com" Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 2:29 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-29 Thread lmlangenfeld--- via Meteorite-list
- From: "Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list" To: "MEM" Cc: Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2016 2:29:43 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof Elton...I agree with most of tha

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-29 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
The fusion crust will likely be warmer than the interior when the meteorite hits. Not because of residual heat from melting, but because for the last few tens of seconds of the fall the meteorite was being blasted with near-ambient temperature air. It was starting to warm up to ambient- it simp

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-29 Thread Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list
Elton...I agree with most of thatbut the cooling starts straight after hot flight miles up where the air temperature is around -30 -50 deg...surely any heat in the fusion crust would dissipate very quickly up there and then the interior temperature would then equalize to bring it down to well b

[meteorite-list] Hot vs. Cold again

2016-06-29 Thread Pat Branch via Meteorite-list
Have to agree with Rob and Chris on this...as I have tried the experiment myself.Put a rock in the freezer until stable temps...then put a blow torch on it for 5 seconds...then put it back in the freezer for 3 minutes (or freezer for 2 and on the counter for 1).It will be cold. The rock will sha

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs. Cold again...

2016-06-28 Thread Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list
Also important is to consider that the body in space may well have been a good fraction of a meter (or more) across. But a meteorite producing body didn't just ablate, it most likely fragments. And the small fragments very, very rapidly drop below the speed necessary to sustain ablation. So wha

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs. Cold again...

2016-06-28 Thread Rob Matson via Meteorite-list
Hi Elton, > Any body arriving from space is at least -60�c and closer to -120�c to -180�c > based on > some black body studies of asteroids-- IIRC The temperature for a typical earth-crossing asteroid with a chondritic composition is actually likely to be warmer than this -- perhaps -20 C. Depe

Re: [meteorite-list] Hot vs Cold again...wasmMeteorite Crashes Through Thailand House Roof

2016-06-28 Thread MEM via Meteorite-list
This was looked into several times in the list history. I am recalling details from those discussions/my research. Any body arriving from space is at least -60°c and closer to -120°c to -180°c based on some black body studies of asteroids-- IIRC The temperature at the air-meteoroid boundary