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Location: Hollingdean, Brighton, East Sussex | Going by what both men said, it couldn't really be anything else bearing in mind I know nothing about such things. www.theargus.co.uk/news/8289863.Sussex_man_hit_by_meteorite/
Edited by rosskesava 25/7/2010 00:08
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Location: Midford, nr Bath | Certainly sounds like it. If that photograph shows the actual one, someone has a very strange idea of what five inches looks like.  |
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Location: Worcestercestershire | Sounds a bit dodgy to me. I read the article and they said about the rock - "It came across at quite a speed". And "If it had come from the other direction we might have suspected someone had thrown it, but we saw it come in straight over the ground from quite a way out.
Surely, any object from space, once it had slowed properly due to friction and atmosphere would become a falling object that was falling straight from the sky, and only at this stage influenced by any local wind effects. it wold not be coming across or over the ground? To travel over the ground from quite a way out is impossible. |
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| Hm. "We were quietly supping our pints..."
Still, I would be interested to hear what the analysis of the rock reveals. |
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Location: Bangkok Thailand | I agree its a rather small 5 inches but it was a guy who estimated the size so that might explain it :). Looks more like a piece of stone that some bright spark catapulted into the cricket ground. It certainly doesnt look like a meteorite, although I am no expert. There doesnt appear to be any sign of it having heated up during its descent through the atmosphere.
As for the expert who said its the first for so many years in the UK?,,,these things are coming down all the time. maybe he meant the first for some time that was witnessed and actually recovered? (if it is a meteorite , which I doubt very much) |
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Location: Machynlleth, Mid Wales | Not the best of images but there appear to be signs of weathering. You wouldn't get that in a newly-fallen meteorite! Mineralogical examination will sort the issue out.
Cheers - John |
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| As you were. It was a lump of cement...
The British and Irish Meteorite Society website has links to the follow-up articles, at: http://www.bimsociety.org/ .
Alastair McBeath,
Meteor Director, Society for Popular Astronomy.
Meteor homepage: http://www.popastro.com/sections/meteor.htm
E-mail: <meteor@popastro.com> (messages under 150 kB in size only, please) |
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Location: Machynlleth, Mid Wales | LOL! It was the brick fragments that looked like weathering products to me in the original pic! Cheers - John |
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Location: WNW London | Given that I was about a hundred feet from where this report came from, sunning my self by the open air pool at the time, I don't remember seeing any trail of fire/smoke/anything at the time. |
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Man nearly hit by meteorite
