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

[Rob McCafferty]

True enough, all that kinetic energy has to go somewhere and heat is how it's dissipated. I'm pretty sure a 500m bolide would still be glowing as it hit the ground but the fireball is hundreds of times bigger than the meteorite and the ground under one such meteorite would likely be ignited BEFORE touchdown by compression shock heating in front of the meteorite.
No problems with this but this had car sized objects racing in, on fire that were clearly not at cosmic velocities and they produced explosions on contact that looked like gas stations exploding. It's all too silly to even talk about any longer. 
It's not like the show was even that good from an entertainment point of view.

--- On Tue, 6/16/09, cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net> wrote:

> From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson at cox.net>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fwd: Re: When the Moon hits your eye like a really, really, really big pizza pie
> To: "meteoritelist" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 7:47 PM
> 
> 
> > 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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