[meteorite-list] Fwd: Re: When the Moon hits your eye like a really, really, really big pizza pie

[cdtucson at cox.net]

> Rob,
> You said
> "And don't get me started on the meteors burning all the way to the ground "
> I'm no expert but? 
> Meteors may not burn all the way to the ground but it is believed possible that an impact can be hot enough to melt the ground into Tektite glass, right? So, wouldn't that generate sufficient heat  to start a fire if it hit a source of fuel like a wooded area? Carancas hit hard enough to boil the water in the water well it hit (true fact). Many witnesses to that. But there was no fuel there to burn so no actual fire broke out.
> So, I can almost see why they would depict the meteors as hot and fiery but the real cause of fires being started is from the heat caused by the impact not the heat of the actual meteor, right? My 2 cents.
> Carl Esparza
> IMCA 5829
> 
> ---- Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Seriously, I'm in the wrong job. I've spent much of the last year putting together a mission to Mars game for our school. You can select individual crew members. For example, one is from the Kashmir region of India, one of her languages is a local dialect and her name is a traditional Kashmiri name, all carefully researched.
> > 
> > If I'm capable of this level of attention to detail then how are the makers of "Impact" capable of getting something on the air that includes a fallen lunar meteorite crater that is so magnetic it disrupts a compass from a distance? I mean, if that's supposed to show some sort of research into meteorites it pays lipservice only. I want to go round and bite their ankles.
> > 
> > And don't get me started on the meteors burning all the way to the ground or shooting down meteor fragments with F-15 fighters. ARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!
> > 
> > At least Space 1999, had a the excuse of naievety to much of it. 
> > Anyone remember the scene in 3rd Rock From the Sun where they were laughing at Star Wars' depiction of space? "Impact" would have them in apoplexy.
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Mon, 6/15/09, Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
> > > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] When the Moon hits your eye like a really, really, really big pizza pie
> > > To: cynapse at charter.net, Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> > > Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 7:43 PM
> > > Hi, Darren, List,
> > > 
> > > The commentator who thinks this
> > > sets a new low for American television
> > > and astronomical science was obviously
> > > fortunate enough to have missed the
> > > series "Space 1999" (to name only one).
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sterling K. Webb
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse at charter.net>
> > > To: <Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:21 AM
> > > Subject: [meteorite-list] When the Moon hits your eye like
> > > a really, really,really big pizza pie
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/15/if-i-watch-this-i-hope-the-moon-will-hit-the-earth/
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