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  • Investigation into possible meteorite landing on NorCal home

    From StarDust@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 5 21:39:31 2022
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOn3oVKc_Sg

    Many people across Northern California on Friday reported seeing a bright light in the sky tumbling down. Several people captured the phenomenon on camera. Video taken from El Dorado County showed a bright ball descending from a dark night sky.

    Is it a hoax or not?
    This farmer Dude wants to make a buck over meter shower or what?

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  • From StarDust@21:1/5 to Martin Brown on Sun Nov 6 06:13:34 2022
    On Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 5:41:51 AM UTC-8, Martin Brown wrote:
    On 06/11/2022 04:39, StarDust wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOn3oVKc_Sg

    Many people across Northern California on Friday reported seeing a bright light in the sky tumbling down. Several people captured the phenomenon on camera. Video taken from El Dorado County showed a bright ball descending from a dark night sky.

    Is it a hoax or not?
    This farmer Dude wants to make a buck over meter shower or what?
    It seems highly unlikely to me that the meteorite was still hot enough
    to start a fire when it hit the ground. If it was then it will be plenty
    big enough for fire investigators to find it very easily. The value of a meteorite that big will also roughly pay for rebuilding the guy's house.

    My money is on a gas fired central heating malfunction.

    I suspect that if was big enough to start a fire it would also have
    still had enough kinetic energy on ground impact to level the house and
    we would be looking at an impact crater rather than a burnt out house.

    The largest ones found in the UK recently have sold for decent sums of
    money and some pieces were around a foot across and still warm when they landed. But nothing like hot enough to start a fire.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60494808

    Christies has an annual auction of meteorites and related memorabilia
    where people pay silly money for rare items.

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    Regards,
    Martin Brown

    He way I understand, the meteorite landed next to the house.
    It was not a direct hit.
    Still, they should find pieces of the object.

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  • From Martin Brown@21:1/5 to StarDust on Sun Nov 6 13:41:46 2022
    On 06/11/2022 04:39, StarDust wrote:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOn3oVKc_Sg

    Many people across Northern California on Friday reported seeing a bright light in the sky tumbling down. Several people captured the phenomenon on camera. Video taken from El Dorado County showed a bright ball descending from a dark night sky.

    Is it a hoax or not?
    This farmer Dude wants to make a buck over meter shower or what?

    It seems highly unlikely to me that the meteorite was still hot enough
    to start a fire when it hit the ground. If it was then it will be plenty
    big enough for fire investigators to find it very easily. The value of a meteorite that big will also roughly pay for rebuilding the guy's house.

    My money is on a gas fired central heating malfunction.

    I suspect that if was big enough to start a fire it would also have
    still had enough kinetic energy on ground impact to level the house and
    we would be looking at an impact crater rather than a burnt out house.

    The largest ones found in the UK recently have sold for decent sums of
    money and some pieces were around a foot across and still warm when they landed. But nothing like hot enough to start a fire.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/60494808

    Christies has an annual auction of meteorites and related memorabilia
    where people pay silly money for rare items.

    --
    Regards,
    Martin Brown

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 6 07:48:29 2022
    On Sat, 5 Nov 2022 21:39:31 -0700 (PDT), StarDust <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOn3oVKc_Sg

    Many people across Northern California on Friday reported seeing a bright light in the sky tumbling down. Several people captured the phenomenon on camera. Video taken from El Dorado County showed a bright ball descending from a dark night sky.

    Is it a hoax or not?
    This farmer Dude wants to make a buck over meter shower or what?

    Meteorites are cold when they land. Indeed, they sometimes form frost
    on the outside. The only way they can be hot is if they are still
    carrying a lot of their initial speed and remain hypersonic... in
    which case they weigh tons and have massive kinetic energy and produce cratering events.

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