[meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in Cottonwood

From: Eric Wichman <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:53:04 -0700
Message-ID: <49B97630.5020501_at_meteoritewatch.com>

It's no doubt, not a meteorite... I see the "letters", but can't make
much out of it.

Alien writing: www.meteoritesusa.com/images/letters.jpg

Oh, and about news stories being unreliable... I would have to agree you
can't expect to draw conclusions or know everything from news stories,
look at the Hopper story. There's many things that weren't reported
about that story.

Space debris, terrestrial explosion or aircraft component. The question
is still, what the heck is it?

Eric



Sterling K. Webb wrote:
> Hi, List,
>
> Look at the photo. At full size on my monitor,
> it is scaled about 10x life size. Clearly visible on the
> fragment are the Roman characters "EJ" and possibly
> "I," about 0.5 - 0.6 mm high and what appears to be
> a smaller line of type as well, both far too small to
> be anything but a portion of a possible part number
> or other identifying mark.
>
> The entire fragment is no more than one inch in
> the longest dimension, heavily battered and folded.
> The odds favor the wood chipper or the jet engine
> where parts may be in high kinetic energy states of
> motion. On the right side of the object in the photo
> there seems to be a plane feature but we can't see it.
>
> The "data" in the news story can (as always) be
> utterly disregarded, but it's no meteorite.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
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> From: "Eric Wichman" <eric at meteoritewatch.com>
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car
> inCottonwood
>
>
> What?! A meteorite or space debris?
>
> "..A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a
> Cottonwood couple's sport utility vehicle late last month, destroying
> much of the dashboard and melting some of the glass..."
>
> http://www.redding.com/news/2009/mar/12/unidentified-object-from-sky-destroys-car-in/
>
> The photos of the supposed "meteorite" look like debris of some sort.
> Not like any meteorite I've ever seen.
>
> Could it be a piece of Satellite, and who was the collector offering
> $10K for the "meteorite"?
>
> Hmm....
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
> www.meteoritesusa.com
>
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Received on Thu 12 Mar 2009 04:53:04 PM PDT