[meteorite-list] Holy Smoldering Chunks of Rock Batman!

From: Jason Utas <meteoritekid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 21:10:22 -0700
Message-ID: <AANLkTikYdFHgOnkSaFiD4w3QufzfCAUVk5azLdXrtwFG_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hello All,

...Or not.

http://www.wcmessenger.com/update/?p=2566

The whole story is fishy, though. If a stony meteorite hit a cement
driveway, it would likely shatter, and would almost certainly not
remain embedded at the bottom of the hole/chip it made.
An iron, might be strong enough to withstand such an impact. But this
fellow was looking at stony material in the bottom of the hole - and
his comment was that it was too soft and not magnetic?

First-off, based on his comments, it could easily be an achondrite.
This seems unlikely, though, because it would probably be a fairly
soft meteorite if that were the case, and would be more likely to
simply shatter upon impact. After seeing a larger photo of the
hole...there's no way an achondrite did that.

http://www.wcmessenger.com/update/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/DSC_00043.jpg

Looks a little more like someone drilled that hole than anything else.
 Weird stuff. I doubt an iron would even have enough kinetic energy
to punch a hole clean through a slab of cement - at least not an iron
that small.

Regards,
Jason


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:
> Meteorite punches hole in driveway
> http://www.wcmessenger.com/news/content/EkZlVEAuupiEdryHWm.php
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