Meteorite Falls in House

Strygun · 2003-05-10, 11:49 PM

This would definatly be something to tell your kids:

Explanation: If you wait long enough, a piece of outer space itself will come right to you. As Colby Navarro worked innocently on the computer, a rock from space crashed through the roof, struck the printer, banged off the wall, and came to rest near the filing cabinet. This occurred around midnight on March 26 in Park Forest, Illinois, USA, near Chicago. The meteorite, measuring about 10 cm across, was one of several that fell near Chicago that day as part of a tremendous fireball. Pictured above is the resulting hole in the ceiling, while the inset image shows the wall dent and the meteorite itself. Although the vast majority of meteors is much smaller and burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, the average homeowner should expect to repair direct meteor damage every hundred million years.

Pics and the full story @: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030506.html

OmnipotentKiwi · 2003-05-10, 11:50 PM

Wow, that's a pretty big meteorite.

That guy is lucky that thing didn't hit him.

Jimbo · 2003-05-10, 11:54 PM

Yeah, that would leave a little bit of a mark.

BUGGER · 2003-05-11, 01:20 AM

Does he get to keep the rock???? I'll buy it!

ObnoxiousFrog · 2003-05-11, 01:25 AM

Crikey!

Squeeky · 2003-05-11, 01:45 AM

That's crazy!

HellFlame · 2003-05-11, 07:06 AM

My moniter broke

and now i have to play errr i mean work :o on a 14" moniter that only goes to 60hz

. Oh and he's lucky i mean not everyone has a meteorite smash through their roof and hit their computer

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Confectrix · 2003-05-11, 08:21 AM

Interesting indeed....better that than space junk.

JonnyK · 2003-05-11, 10:31 AM

How could it have the power to blast straight through his roof and then bounce off his printer? wouldn't it just crush through his desk and plant itself in his floor?

HellFlame · 2003-05-11, 10:38 AM

Come on it's just a meteorite, It's not like its kryptonite or something.

:o

r3d · 2003-05-11, 10:49 AM

Itd lose power by smashing through the roof, Like alot of power. But it left itself aenough power to hit the printer hard enough to bounce off it. Last time I checked, printers arnt very bouncy.

HellFlame · 2003-05-11, 10:59 AM

It never said it bounced off the printer it said it 'struck' the printer.

:o

EineBeBoP · 2003-05-11, 03:04 PM

hellflame?

Whats with the smilies?
is it just you being insane?
or trying to piss somebody off?
or are you jsut the uber noob and like the smilies.

this isnt flameing, im just wondering.

NeoTassadar · 2003-05-11, 03:09 PM

He's lucky it was going as slow as it did, most chunks that make it through the atmosphere 10 cm across are travelling fast enough to make a large crater. Very rare that ever happens, though.

OmnipotentKiwi · 2003-05-11, 03:22 PM

Yeah, 10cm is damn huge for a meteorite. I guess the roof and printer took a HUGE amount of force for there to be no crator.