[meteorite-list] Grimsby family shows off visitor from space

Ted Bunch tbear1 at cableone.net
Fri Oct 16 17:47:14 EDT 2009

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Apparently, meteorites seek out cars much like tornadoes seek out trailer
parks. Are we onto something here?

Ted

On 10/16/09 11:31 AM, "Gary Fujihara" <fujmon at mac.com> wrote:

> Wow! Another car-smashing hammer like Bendl (1938), Peekskill (1992),

> Getafe (1994)!

>

> gary

>

> On Oct 16, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Greg Stanley wrote:

>

>>

>>

>> All:

>>

>> Take a look. Looks like the real deal. A hammer!

>>

>> Greg S.

>>

>>

>> http://beta.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2133932

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>> Yvonne and Tony Garchinski are the proud new owners of five

>> tiny meteorite fragments.

>>

>> They also have a new windshield, after the space rock smashed into

>> their

>> Pathfinder three weeks ago.

>>

>> "I thought it was vandalism, for sure," said Tony Friday as dozens

>> of reporters converged on his west Grismby home. "Who thinks a

>> meteorite

>> is going to crash-land on your car?"

>>

>> The golf ball-sized fragment is likely part of a larger meteorite

>> that lit

>> up the skies of southern Ontario

>> Sept. 25.

>>

>> The fireball was first picked up by cameras operated by the

>> University of

>> Western Ontario's physics and astronomy department 100 kilometres

>> above Guelph

>> as it streaked southeastward at a speed of about 75,000 kilometres

>> per hour.

>>

>> Scientists released that footage Oct. 7 and began searching a

>> 12-square-kilometre area near Grimsby

>> where they thought the meteor fell.

>>

>> Only after seeing the footage on television did the Grimsby family

>> realize their car-bashing

>> vandal might instead be an alien invader.

>>

>> "We filed a police report and everything," said a laughing Yvonne,

>> who held out the tiny silver and black space rock pieces for

>> reporters to see

>> Friday.

>>

>> After reading up on the meteorite search, Yvonne called Phil

>> McCausland, an

>> astrophysicist at the University

>> of Western Ontario, who

>> verified the tiny rocks were out of this world.

>>

>> "They're probably the oldest rocks that you or I or anyone else are

>> every going to hold," McCausland said. "it's pretty exciting."

>>

>> The Garchinskis own the window-smashing space pebbles, but they've

>> agreed to

>> loan them to university researchers for three months.

>>

>>

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