[meteorite-list] Mystery object in photo & Park Forest

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Date: Tue Dec 7 20:53:43 2004
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The angle of impact truly tells very little.

When I arrived on Winslow St. in Park Forest 90% of the fragments that
shattered from a multi kilo individual that impacted in the street landed on
the south side of the St.
So I assumed that the meteorite had come from the north.
Then a few weeks later a local called me and showed me a 1243 gram
individual that he pulled out of the ground.
He also said that the impact hole wasn't completely vertical. The meteorite
impacted on a 70 degree angle as though it came from the north.
Obviously very strange considering the meteor came from the southwest.

Bob Evans
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Mystery object in photo


> >
> > I would argue that determining the angle of a fall from the sort of dent
it
> > makes in a car is far from a precise science! To my own eye, the dent in
the
> > Peekskill car appears to have been made by something striking largely
from
> > above, not at any sort of shallow angle.
>
> Peekskill was more than a dent, it went competely through the car! It
left
> a sizable hole through the trunk. I've seen the car in person, and the
angle
> of the hole is clearly at a non-vertical angle. Also, the meteorite just
> missed the gas tank just by a few inches!
>
> Ron Baalke
>
>
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