[meteorite-list] Suspected Meteorite Hits Illinois Home

[Notkin]

Dave posted:

> I don't see it yet as I stand on my head to look at the photo up side 
> down.
> I still go with hoodlums chucking a piece of foundry steel through a
> window, or some industrial mishap that launched debris over a distance.

Hey Dave, that was a good chuckle thanks  : )  Are we going to call 
this the Bloomington Object, or "B.O." for short? I can already feel a 
new skit gelling in Steve's mind for the 2008 Tucson party.

Has this link been posted, with the whole slide show?

It's a must-see:   http://tinyurl.com/ywe2rc

  . . . and quite Monty Python-like:

- A photo of loads of schoolchildren bouncing back into the house after 
the meteorite threat has subsided. Holy cow, that's a lot of kids! 
Amazing one of them wasn't hit by the B.O. Caption says ". . . the 
children were moved as firefighters checked the area for RADIATION." 
Radiation? Did April 1 come early this year?

- A geologist looking confused while staring at the iron slab or 
whatever (why do they always bother specialists on *terrestrial* rocks 
with these things?)

- Close-up of the thing which sure doesn't look much like an iron 
meteorite -- more like something that was hacked up by a band saw. 
Maybe someone was cutting a block of Seymchan in Russia and the blade 
caught, and a piece was flung way up into low orbit and then crashed 
into Bloomington?

- Another geologist looking puzzled while weighing the B.O.

- And really my favorite:  " . . . professors of Geology at Illinois 
State University perform tests on a space object . . ."

People, they're just standing there and holding it, as if completely 
bewildered. It looks like the test they're about to perform is to drop 
it from four feet and see if gravity will cause it to fall to the lab 
floor.

And no disrespect toward our fine geologists . . . after all I can't 
tell gneiss from granite so why should they be able to ID a meteorite? 
I just found the photos very entertaining. It's all so very DRAMATIC!


  : )

Geoff N.
www.aerolite.org