[meteorite-list] The embeded Sikhote clue on Velocity

From: McCartney Taylor <mccartney_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:22:45 -0500
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This piece is an important clue on potential cosmic velocity residual at ground level.

I encourage Matt to have this piece X-rayed in a lab (or in a doctors office - any Doc's out there with ideas?) to determine the depth of the penetration. Likely a Doc would get a kick out of this and do it in a couple of hours.

1. We know the height of trees are between 0-10 meters.
2. We know the incoming angle +/- 20 degrees from the famous painting.
3. We have an idea of the speed of a bullet hitting trees and their penetration.
4. We have an idea of the TKW of the iron

Give this picture, the diameter of the projectile, a copy of the X-ray and some background to a Police or FBI specialist ballistics investigator and we could get a very good estimate of the velocity.

Matt, if you get this X-rayed and we find a ballistics specialist to do the analysis, I'd be willing to write the white paper on this.

-mt
Received on Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:22:45 PM PDT