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Re: (meteorobs) Hot Meteorite
We have had this discussion several times in the last two years. Most of the
scientists and many/most other list members believe the nice scientific
explaination why meteorites are always cold, something to do with the long
dark flight once they have been slowed down by the atmosphere. This stance
also requires discounting the few reports by the common man that some
meteorites have been hot to glowing red by people nearly hit by
meteorites, but some quickly recovered meteorites have also been reported
to have ice, I believe both are possible depending on the circustances. Here
are two posts I put up quoting a story in Century Magazine about a
meteorite that nearly hit a man in Mexico in 1885-87 and a web site
posted by Ed Majden 8 December, who was the first scientist who took the
side that some meteorites may be hot:
http://www.tiac.net/users/lewkaren/meteorobs/msg12415.html
http://www.tiac.net/users/lewkaren/meteorobs/msg12426.html
http://home1.gte.net/res04m7h/temperature.html
Dave English
Oceeanside, California
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