AW: [meteorite-list] Question

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 12 14:21:17 2006
Message-ID: <000a01c6a5df$d532bcc0$fd01a8c0_at_bellatrix>

I believe the general feeling is that this is an unusual slag, but it isn't
entirely certain. There is a steel plant in the area, and slag sometimes
drops onto roads. The fact that this piece hit a car allowed its fall angle
to be estimated at 20?, which isn't possible for a meteorite of this size
unless it bounced off a cliff or there was a hurricane at the time.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: AW: [meteorite-list] Question


> Hi all,
> I find this very interesting (below) - is anyone on the list "in
> the
> know" on this event and what it was about?
> --
> Getafe: On the afternooon of June 21, 1994, Jose Martin and his wife,
> Vicenta Cors, were driving in Spain from Madrid to Marbella. As they
> zoomed
> past the town of Getafe, a three-pound rock smashed through their
> windshield
> on the driver's side, ricocheted off the dashboard, and bent the steering
> wheel, breaking the little finger on Martin's right hand. It then flew
> between the couple's heads and landed on the back seat. Other than the
> broken little finger, they were okay. The stone was chemically analyzed
> but
> cannot be confirmed as extraterrestrial on this basis. Eighty-one
> additional
> fragments weighing a total of 55 kg were collected from the area.
> --
> This mentions 55 Kg of fragments being collected. If they were'nt
> meteoritic, what was going on? Anyone know? ...here is another link
> on this:
>
> http://tierra.rediris.es/merge/getafe.html
>
> Comments welcome....
> Michael
Received on Wed 12 Jul 2006 02:20:18 PM PDT