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Re: Hot and Cold Again

In scimming over The National Academy of Science (1915/Ferrington) I see
many falls as described as "too hot to handle" .........Allegan, Michigan;
"the sand was hot for ~ two feet around where it struck"
         Andover, Maine; "it was intensely hot when it struck and grazed a
stone wall"
         Avilez, Mexico; "the stone was still hot when it was dug up"
         Bath, S. Dakota; "when reached it was found to be so warm that it
had to be handeled with gloves"
         Cabin Creek, Arkansas; "the iron had buried itself to a depth of
about three feet and the Earth around it for the thickness of 1 inch seemed
to be burned"
         Portales Valley, N.M. Nelda Wallace reported that the meteorite was
giving off heat after impact.(Not in Nat. Acd. Scn.'s)
        There are of course falls mentioned that felt cool to the touch as
well.
                               Cheers.........Allen

-----Original Message-----
From: almitt <almitt@kconline.com>
To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
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Date: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 8:21 PM
Subject: Hot and Cold Again


>Dear list,
>
>I just love a good debate. A posting from Bernd quoting Monica below:
>
>First of all, it is important to discriminate between different types of
>extraterrestrial visitor. Meteorites are natural objects that survive
>their fall to Earth from space, and are recovered. They are not
>radioactive, and are almost always COLD when they land.
>
>Also from the excellent book by Harry Y. McSween, Jr. " Meteorites and
>Their Parent Planets"  in regards to the Wethersfield, Connecticut fall
>Nov. 8 1982, the family called the fire department fearing an explosion
>had occurred. upon finding the grapefruit sized meteorite the fire
>marshal later reported the meteorite was COLD to the touch.
>
>McSween also states that the stones have been stored in the deep freeze
>of space from the beginning and that the passage through the atmosphere
>does not significantly effect their interiors (after all the study of
>meteorites is the study of unaltered to highly altered parts of the
>solar system) and that heat conduction in the atmospheric transit is too
>fast/short for heat absorption..
>
>He further sites the Coby, Wisconsin and the Dharmasala, India falls as
>reported to FROST over quickly and both fell on hot summer days. Not to
>say that the fusion crust on some specimen might not be warm to the
>touch such as Noblesville, Indiana fall.
>
>Also Nininger also stated that he himself interviewed a number of people
>who were able to get to a fall shortly after its impact and found the
>specimen to be COLD or with frost from the moisture content from the
>surrounding area.
>
>BTW I highly recommend McSween's new book and am enjoying reading it
>myself at this time. Much updated information, new pictures and some
>indications as to where some of the meteorites we have might have come
>from. Best!
>
>--AL
>
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