[meteorite-list] What is this?

[Ed Deckert]

In fact, for this to be part of the MIR Space Station, it would have taken a 
MIR-acle...

Ed
;-)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Farmer" <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
To: "Jodie Reynolds" <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 8:57 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What is this?


>I doubt any "rocks" were aboard the Mir space station:) So regardless of 
>where it came down the whole story is idiotic.
> Michael Farmer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 16, 2013, at 11:50 PM, Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Not buying it, at least not at face value. Quite literally "doesn't add 
>> up".
>>
>> It would have to survive at least another five orbits after Mir broke
>> up.  And it would have been a very light piece. That's five orbits
>> AFTER its OBSERVED reentry!
>>
>> My simulation puts it within a few kilometers altitude of the US
>> Army's tracking on Kwajalein Atoll, so I figure I can't be too far
>> off, this is what the final track + 4 more orbits would have looked
>> like.  Even in that last orbit, it would have to be pretty perturbed
>> to make it there!  My atmospheric interface is based on archived
>> data, but out there, the data isn't fantastic -- hence the probable
>> reason I'm at 128km vs the actual 120km significant interface, and why 
>> I'm at 93km when
>> the US Army's observation is at 90km.
>>
>> If you told me it was found in Fiji, Australia, New Zealand - I'd
>> probably take a closer look at it.  East Coast of the US?  Psh.  No.
>>
>> Here's my reentry model + 4 orbits
>> http://spaceballoon.org/mir-reentry.png
>>
>> --- Jodie
>>
>> Sunday, June 16, 2013, 9:39:41 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi List,
>>
>>> There is something about this object that doesn't seem to add up.
>>> The claim is that it is a "piece" of an old "Mir" space station.
>>> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/06/14/rock-found-in-amesbury-backyard-came-from-space-station/
>>> Comments?
>>
>>> Cordially,
>>
>>> Count Deiro
>>> IMCA 3536 MetSoc
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>> -- 
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