[meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in Cottonwood

[Fries, Marc D]

Whatever hit it looks (to me) like it fragmented completely when it hit the
windshield.  The dashboard doesn¹t have one deep gouge in it like a solid
object would inflict; it has a shotgun-spray of spallation damage.  Whatever
hit the thing wound up as tiny pieces scattered around inside the car.  Ice
falling from an airplane, perhaps?  I still think the ³debris² they show is
part of the dashboard.

Oh, and the windshield wasn¹t ³melted² like that genius journo declared.
Windshields have two panes of safety glass glued together with a plastic
sheet in between. That keeps glass fragments from flying around because they
stick to the plastic, just like the photo shows.   The ³melted glass² is
that plastic sheet stretched all out of shape by getting walloped.  All the
journo had to do was touch the thing to figure that out.

Now I¹m really going to quit getting wrapped up in this stuff and get back
to work..

Cheers,
MDF

On 3/12/09 11:33 AM, "Kashuba" <mary.kashuba at verizon.net> wrote:

> Eric, List,
> 
> I emailed this article to my brother who lives up there.  He responded
> "Cottonwood is in the flightline for the local airport."
> 
> - John
> 
> John Kashuba
> Ontario, California
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Eric
> Wichman
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:07 AM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
> Cottonwood
> 
> What?! A meteorite or space debris?
> 
> "..A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a
> Cottonwood couple's sport utility vehicle late last month, destroying
> much of the dashboard and melting some of the glass..."
> 
> http://www.redding.com/news/2009/mar/12/unidentified-object-from-sky-destroy
> s-car-in/
> 
> The photos of the supposed "meteorite" look like debris of some sort.
> Not like any meteorite I've ever seen.
> 
> Could it be a piece of Satellite, and who was the collector offering
> $10K for the "meteorite"?
> 
> Hmm....
> 
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
> www.meteoritesusa.com
> 
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