Meteorite landing in Edinburgh?
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This might be a dumb post :P but i was wondering if anyone knew if there were any farmers in the Edinburgh area that might have had their field destroyed by a monster chunk of rock falling from the sky.
I was out last night in the garden around midnight and noticed the meteor shower so i thought i'd stand about and watch it for a while.
Pretty, but then i noticed a blob in the sky getting considerable larger... and larger, and by the time it hurtled lazily over the house it looked around the size of an arctic and sailed over the neighbours westwards towards the airport.
i'm guessing the size based on, it wasn't traviling that fast it took a couple of seconds to go past the front of the house, and it was definately larger than the transit parked 100m away down the road. So im assumng it was stil fairly high in the atmosphere, but from the trajectory, i'm assuming it hit somwhere reasonably close.... though on the drive to work i couldnt see any carnage.
pics/videos would obviously corroborate my story, but it was pretty awesome to watch a boulder going flying by cartoon style.
first thought was crap... the car is on the drive.
I was out last night in the garden around midnight and noticed the meteor shower so i thought i'd stand about and watch it for a while.
Pretty, but then i noticed a blob in the sky getting considerable larger... and larger, and by the time it hurtled lazily over the house it looked around the size of an arctic and sailed over the neighbours westwards towards the airport.
i'm guessing the size based on, it wasn't traviling that fast it took a couple of seconds to go past the front of the house, and it was definately larger than the transit parked 100m away down the road. So im assumng it was stil fairly high in the atmosphere, but from the trajectory, i'm assuming it hit somwhere reasonably close.... though on the drive to work i couldnt see any carnage.
pics/videos would obviously corroborate my story, but it was pretty awesome to watch a boulder going flying by cartoon style.
first thought was crap... the car is on the drive.
endo said:
This might be a dumb post :P but i was wondering if anyone knew if there were any farmers in the Edinburgh area that might have had their field destroyed by a monster chunk of rock falling from the sky.
I was out last night in the garden around midnight and noticed the meteor shower so i thought i'd stand about and watch it for a while.
Pretty, but then i noticed a blob in the sky getting considerable larger... and larger, and by the time it hurtled lazily over the house it looked around the size of an arctic and sailed over the neighbours westwards towards the airport.
i'm guessing the size based on, it wasn't traviling that fast it took a couple of seconds to go past the front of the house, and it was definately larger than the transit parked 100m away down the road. So im assumng it was stil fairly high in the atmosphere, but from the trajectory, i'm assuming it hit somwhere reasonably close.... though on the drive to work i couldnt see any carnage.
pics/videos would obviously corroborate my story, but it was pretty awesome to watch a boulder going flying by cartoon style.
first thought was crap... the car is on the drive.
The impact from a meteor the size on an artic would cause extreme devastation. A meteor 4m in diameter hitting the earth's surfave would have approx. half the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb!I was out last night in the garden around midnight and noticed the meteor shower so i thought i'd stand about and watch it for a while.
Pretty, but then i noticed a blob in the sky getting considerable larger... and larger, and by the time it hurtled lazily over the house it looked around the size of an arctic and sailed over the neighbours westwards towards the airport.
i'm guessing the size based on, it wasn't traviling that fast it took a couple of seconds to go past the front of the house, and it was definately larger than the transit parked 100m away down the road. So im assumng it was stil fairly high in the atmosphere, but from the trajectory, i'm assuming it hit somwhere reasonably close.... though on the drive to work i couldnt see any carnage.
pics/videos would obviously corroborate my story, but it was pretty awesome to watch a boulder going flying by cartoon style.
first thought was crap... the car is on the drive.
okay... maybe not that big since we are stil alive, and unforuntely the office still exists.
but substantial insize nonetheless..
when i first noticed it, it was around the size a tennis ball would be when its chucked in the air. When it went sailing behind the houses down the street it was around the size of a fooball around the size of a football at 20m or so.
to fast for a cloud, and a bin bag because of the height and it was substantial in size going behind the houses.
and i'm being serious, lol :P
no drink, drugs or anything involved.
but substantial insize nonetheless..
when i first noticed it, it was around the size a tennis ball would be when its chucked in the air. When it went sailing behind the houses down the street it was around the size of a fooball around the size of a football at 20m or so.
to fast for a cloud, and a bin bag because of the height and it was substantial in size going behind the houses.
and i'm being serious, lol :P
no drink, drugs or anything involved.
Before they hit the earth's atmosphere they are travelling at velocities of 11km/sec, by the time they have gotten through the earths outer atmosphere their speeds are greatly reduced and the reach their terminal velocity, they are doing around 200-600mph depending on their size/shape.
at those speeds, things crawl by when you're viewing them at a distance, ie aircraft, cars etc..
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obviously a car doesnt do 200-600mph, but what i meant is comparitvely a car doing 100mph 5m's away looks like its going faster than a car doing 100mph 50m away
at those speeds, things crawl by when you're viewing them at a distance, ie aircraft, cars etc..
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obviously a car doesnt do 200-600mph, but what i meant is comparitvely a car doing 100mph 5m's away looks like its going faster than a car doing 100mph 50m away
Edited by endo on Monday 26th July 12:27
endo said:
Before they hit the earth's atmosphere they are travelling at velocities of 11km/sec, by the time they have gotten through the earths outer atmosphere their speeds are greatly reduced and the reach their terminal velocity, they are doing around 200-600mph depending on their size/shape.
at those speeds, things crawl by when you're viewing them at a distance, ie aircraft, cars etc..
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obviously a car doesnt do 200-600mph, but what i meant is comparitvely a car doing 100mph 5m's away looks like its going faster than a car doing 100mph 50m away
I don't really think that meteorites reach a terminal velocity as such since they have so much energy and there's not enough resistance in the earth's atmosphere to slow them down that much.at those speeds, things crawl by when you're viewing them at a distance, ie aircraft, cars etc..
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obviously a car doesnt do 200-600mph, but what i meant is comparitvely a car doing 100mph 5m's away looks like its going faster than a car doing 100mph 50m away
Edited by endo on Monday 26th July 12:27
I would have thought what total rubbish . . . .err until I came apon this. :-\
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorit...
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorit...
Ems33 said:
I would have thought what total rubbish . . . .err until I came apon this. :-\
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorit...
Pure tosh. Objects travelling from space are not black, they are white hot... and don't bounce when they land!http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorit...
GetCarter said:
Ems33 said:
I would have thought what total rubbish . . . .err until I came apon this. :-\
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorit...
Pure tosh. Objects travelling from space are not black, they are white hot... and don't bounce when they land!http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorit...
Although I don't think you could survive getting hit by a chunk of space rock the size shown in that article!!
Edited by ViperPict on Monday 26th July 21:22
http://news.uk.msn.com/world/articles.aspx?cp-docu...
Meteorite strikes at county cricket match
Two cricket fans had a narrow escape when a meteorite crashed to earth next to them as they supped pints on the boundary last week. The 4.5 billion-year-old rock came hurtling out of the sky as Jan Marszel and Richard Haynes watched Sussex bat against Middlesex in a county game at Uxbridge.
It is thought to be the first meteor to land in Britain since 1992 and the stellar projectile could hardly have chosen a more incongruous landing site than the pastoral surroundings of an English cricket ground.
Marszel and Haynes were watching Monty Panesar and Luke Wright bat for Sussex on Wednesday when they saw the object. They could have been forgiven for thinking it was a cricket ball, but in fact it turned out to be a rock from outer space, which ploughed into the turf in front of them.
Marszel, 51, said: "We were sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden, out of a blue sky, we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us. It landed five yards inside the boundary and split into two pieces.
"One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board. It came across at quite a speed – if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting."
Haynes, who is retired, said he was in no doubt that the rock came from space. "If it had come from the other direction we might have suspected someone had thrown it," he told the Brighton Argus. "But we saw it come in straight over the ground from quite a way out – it was definitely a meteorite."
Dr Matthew Genge, a meteorite expert at Imperial College, London, said that if the rock was verified as a meteorite then it was "very exciting".
"Potentially it contains secrets as to the formation of our solar system," he explained.
Meteorite strikes at county cricket match
Two cricket fans had a narrow escape when a meteorite crashed to earth next to them as they supped pints on the boundary last week. The 4.5 billion-year-old rock came hurtling out of the sky as Jan Marszel and Richard Haynes watched Sussex bat against Middlesex in a county game at Uxbridge.
It is thought to be the first meteor to land in Britain since 1992 and the stellar projectile could hardly have chosen a more incongruous landing site than the pastoral surroundings of an English cricket ground.
Marszel and Haynes were watching Monty Panesar and Luke Wright bat for Sussex on Wednesday when they saw the object. They could have been forgiven for thinking it was a cricket ball, but in fact it turned out to be a rock from outer space, which ploughed into the turf in front of them.
Marszel, 51, said: "We were sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden, out of a blue sky, we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us. It landed five yards inside the boundary and split into two pieces.
"One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board. It came across at quite a speed – if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting."
Haynes, who is retired, said he was in no doubt that the rock came from space. "If it had come from the other direction we might have suspected someone had thrown it," he told the Brighton Argus. "But we saw it come in straight over the ground from quite a way out – it was definitely a meteorite."
Dr Matthew Genge, a meteorite expert at Imperial College, London, said that if the rock was verified as a meteorite then it was "very exciting".
"Potentially it contains secrets as to the formation of our solar system," he explained.
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