[meteorite-list] Temperature of meteorites (Bernd's List)

From: lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu <lebofsky_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:13:36 -0700 (MST)
Message-ID: <7d5964f618610cf707ef5b6eacd3f5b8.squirrel_at_webmail.lpl.arizona.edu>

Hi Mike:

I am still a fan of cold meteorites (yes I am biased), so is it possible
that a burn is due to something very cold rather than hot?

Larry

> I have a couple to add to Bernd's list. Both were picked up immediately
> after the fall:
>
> 23) Lixna: Two other workers who were harrowing a nearby field near the
> village of Lasdany saw another object covered in earth, which had impacted
> the ground only 20 steps away. One of the men touched the stone and burned
> his hand. The burn was later confirmed in a letter by the Count Plater
> Sieber as he described it as a reddened swollen area on the man's
> finger...
>
> 24) Sena: The fall at Sena took place around noon on November 17, 1773...
> a
> man named Miguel Calvo discovered a mysterious stone on the property of
> his
> neighbor, Francisco Gonzalez. He first moved it with his hoe and then by
> hand, but withdrew immediately because the stone was "very hot..."
>
> Sena also occurred long before the acceptance of meteorites and the
> eruption
> of Mt. Vesuvius, so there was no reason to be predisposed to any "hot
> rock"
> ideas.
>
> Fried ice cream,
>
> Mike
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
> bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
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> Subject: [meteorite-list] Temperature of meteorites
>
> Good morning Listees, Listoids, Listers,
>
> Here's a copy of something I posted many years ago (maybe 2004).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernd
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Meteorites - warm or hot to the touch?
>
> 01) The Binningup meteorite was recovered within a few minutes
> of the fall and was reported to have been warm to the touch.
>
> 02) Cabin Creek: Three hours after the fall, Mr. and Mrs. Shandy were able
> to find the hole and excavate the mass, reportedly still uncomfortably
> warm.
>
> 03) Glatton: was warm, not hot, when first picked up.
>
> 04) Gurram Konda: near the tent some small warm
> stones, which the Sentry has seen falling down.
>
> 05) Juromenha: The mass was said to have been incandescent
> when discovered and still warm when recovered next morning
>
> 06) L'Aigle: Affrighted persons who picked them up found
> the stones to be very warm and smelling of sulfur.
>
> 07) Limerick: It was immediately dug up, and I have been informed by those
> that were
> present, and on whom I could rely, that it was then warm and had a
> sulphurous smell.
>
> 08) Middlesbrough: The stone was "new-milk warm" when found, ...
>
> 09) Noblesville: The meteorite was not glowing as it passed the boys and
> was "slightly warm" when Spaulding picked it up a few seconds after it
> fell.
>
> 10) Pettiswood: The affrighted horse fell to the Earth, and two boys
> rushed
> to him in
> terror carrying fragments that Bingley found to be warm as milk just from
> the cow.
>
> 11) Pontlyfni: When I picked up the fragment of metal, or whatever it is,
> it
> was warm in my hand.
>
> 12) Rowton: It is, moreover, stated that when Mr. Brooks found the mass
> "it
> was quite warm."
>
> 13) Tsukuba: Seconds later student Ryutaro Araki stopped to retrieve
> a still-warm stone that had fallen in front of his car near Tsukuba
>
> 14) Wold Cottage: Rushing to the spot he found a large
> stone, warm and smoking and smelling of sulfur.
>
> 15) Crumlin: When dug out the object, which had embedded itself in a
> straightdownward
> course for 13 inches, was found to be quite hot, continuing so for about
> an
> hour.
>
> 16) Eichst?dt: The man rushed to the spot but found the black
> stone too hot to pick up until it cooled in the snow.
>
> 17) Hanau: A hot stone the size of a pea was picked up, weight 0.37 gr.
>
> 18) Harrogate: A hot stone, like basalt, fell accompanied
> by whistling in the air and lightning and thunder ...
>
> 19) Holbrook: One piece larger than an orange fell into a tree in a yard
> at Aztec cutting the limb off slick and clean and falling to the ground,
> and when picked up was almost red-hot.
>
> Von Achen, who saw them fall, reported that they were too hot to pick
> up. Two accounts state that they became lighter in color after cooling.
>
> 20) Luc?: several harvesters, startled by sudden thunderclaps and a loud
> hissing noise, looked up and saw the stone plunge into a field where they
> found it half-buried and too hot to pick up.
>
> 21) Magombedze: A 10-cm stone weighing approximately 600 gr
> survived the impact intact and was hot to touch.
>
> 22) Menziswyl: The farmers say that the stone fell with the lightning and
> shattered when it hit the ground; it was hot when they picked it up.
>
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