[meteorite-list] Grimsby family shows off visitor from space

[Ted Bunch]

Apparently, meteorites seek out cars much like tornadoes seek out trailer
parks. Are we onto something here?

Ted


On 10/16/09 11:31 AM, "Gary Fujihara" <fujmon at mac.com> wrote:

> Wow!  Another car-smashing hammer like Bendl (1938), Peekskill (1992),
> Getafe (1994)!
> 
> gary
> 
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Greg Stanley wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> All:
>> 
>> Take a look.  Looks like the real deal.  A hammer!
>> 
>> Greg S.
>> 
>> 
>> http://beta.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2133932
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>> 
>> Yvonne and Tony Garchinski are the proud new owners of five
>> tiny meteorite fragments.
>> 
>> They also have a new windshield, after the space rock smashed into
>> their
>> Pathfinder three weeks ago.
>> 
>> "I thought it was vandalism, for sure," said Tony Friday as dozens
>> of reporters converged on his west Grismby home. "Who thinks a
>> meteorite
>> is going to crash-land on your car?"
>> 
>> The golf ball-sized fragment is likely part of a larger meteorite
>> that lit
>> up the skies of southern Ontario
>> Sept. 25.
>> 
>> The fireball was first picked up by cameras operated by the
>> University of
>> Western Ontario's physics and astronomy department 100 kilometres
>> above Guelph
>> as it streaked southeastward at a speed of about 75,000 kilometres
>> per hour.
>> 
>> Scientists released that footage Oct. 7 and began searching a
>> 12-square-kilometre area near Grimsby
>> where they thought the meteor fell.
>> 
>> Only after seeing the footage on television did the Grimsby family
>> realize their car-bashing
>> vandal might instead be an alien invader.
>> 
>> "We filed a police report and everything," said a laughing Yvonne,
>> who held out the tiny silver and black space rock pieces for
>> reporters to see
>> Friday.
>> 
>> After reading up on the meteorite search, Yvonne called Phil
>> McCausland, an
>> astrophysicist at the University
>> of Western Ontario, who
>> verified the tiny rocks were out of this world.
>> 
>> "They're probably the oldest rocks that you or I or anyone else are
>> every going to hold," McCausland said. "it's pretty exciting."
>> 
>> The Garchinskis own the window-smashing space pebbles, but they've
>> agreed to
>> loan them to university researchers for three months.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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