[meteorite-list] Meteorites - warm or hot to the touch? - A Re-post

[Chris Peterson]

Warm is one thing- it is quite easy for a mass in space at around 1 AU to be 
warm- it is sitting in full sunlight, after all, and has no efficient way to 
get rid of heat. But I'm not buying stories about stones on the ground being 
incandescent, or even too hot to touch. Obviously, cool is most likely given 
the several minutes most stones spend exposed to a blast of -40°C air.

There is nothing more unreliable than an actual witness to a fall.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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From: <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
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Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:04 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorites - warm or hot to the touch? - A Re-post


AL wrote:

> Years ago on the list we had the hot/cold debate. People have
> pointed out a number of exceptions of meteorites being hot.


01) The Binningup meteorite was recovered within a few minutes
    of the fall and was reported to have been warm to the touch...