[meteorite-list] Terminal Velocity vs Cosmic "Flaming" Velocity

[Randy Korotev]

Maybe someone else mentioned this, but on the interview with the 
dentist, Dr. Ciampi, that NPR aired this weekend, he clearly said 
that the meteorite "wasn't warm either when he [his partner] touched it."

Also, the reporter, Audie Cornish, consistently referred to the thing 
as a "meteor" despite that Dr. Ciampi called it a meteorite.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7



At 13:12 25-01-10 Monday, you wrote:
> >>I did read however in one article by a  major newspaper that stated the
>Lorton meteorite was "smoldering". Don't  remember where though. Perhaps
>a misquote, or  misinterpretation?<<
>
>Probably a reporters poetic license being  exercised. :O)
>geozay

Randy Korotev
Saint Louis, MO
korotev at wustl.edu