[meteorite-list] Grimsby family shows off visitor from space

From: Gary Fujihara <fujmon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:31:01 -1000
Message-ID: <70C27FDD-A0BC-419F-81DD-DEED17299D69_at_mac.com>

Wow! Another car-smashing hammer like Bendl (1938), Peekskill (1992),
Getafe (1994)!

gary

On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Greg Stanley wrote:

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> All:
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> Take a look. Looks like the real deal. A hammer!
>
> Greg S.
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> http://beta.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2133932
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> Yvonne and Tony Garchinski are the proud new owners of five
> tiny meteorite fragments.
>
> They also have a new windshield, after the space rock smashed into
> their
> Pathfinder three weeks ago.
>
> "I thought it was vandalism, for sure," said Tony Friday as dozens
> of reporters converged on his west Grismby home. "Who thinks a
> meteorite
> is going to crash-land on your car?"
>
> The golf ball-sized fragment is likely part of a larger meteorite
> that lit
> up the skies of southern Ontario
> Sept. 25.
>
> The fireball was first picked up by cameras operated by the
> University of
> Western Ontario's physics and astronomy department 100 kilometres
> above Guelph
> as it streaked southeastward at a speed of about 75,000 kilometres
> per hour.
>
> Scientists released that footage Oct. 7 and began searching a
> 12-square-kilometre area near Grimsby
> where they thought the meteor fell.
>
> Only after seeing the footage on television did the Grimsby family
> realize their car-bashing
> vandal might instead be an alien invader.
>
> "We filed a police report and everything," said a laughing Yvonne,
> who held out the tiny silver and black space rock pieces for
> reporters to see
> Friday.
>
> After reading up on the meteorite search, Yvonne called Phil
> McCausland, an
> astrophysicist at the University
> of Western Ontario, who
> verified the tiny rocks were out of this world.
>
> "They're probably the oldest rocks that you or I or anyone else are
> every going to hold," McCausland said. "it's pretty exciting."
>
> The Garchinskis own the window-smashing space pebbles, but they've
> agreed to
> loan them to university researchers for three months.
>
>
>
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Gary Fujihara
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Received on Fri 16 Oct 2009 02:31:01 PM PDT