[meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in Cottonwood

From: Kashuba <mary.kashuba_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:24:11 -0700
Message-ID: <005e01c9a348$1fb88910$5f299b30$_at_kashuba@verizon.net>

Carl, List,

I'm not advocating ANY source of this object but:

1 - It might look EXACTLY like an airplane part to someone who knows air
planes. (It might look like a satellite part to someone . . .)
2 - It might have gotten pretty messed up in, on or around whatever device
it came from before said device shed it. It DOES look like it was really
moving when it hit.

- John

John Kashuba
Ontario, California

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Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:05 PM
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Cottonwood

I have a question.
If this is simply something that fell off of an airplane then why is it so
unrecognizable?
I would think parts that fall off planes would be easy to recognize. Plus
the size of this piece pictured is about the size of a nickel. A nickel
weighs more like 5 grams not .07 grams. It seems to me this must be from
space? No? And if it is from space , why isn't it smooth?
Carl Esparza
IMCa 5829

---- Kashuba <mary.kashuba at verizon.net> wrote:
> Eric, List,
>
> I emailed this article to my brother who lives up there. He responded
> "Cottonwood is in the flightline for the local airport."
>
> - John
>
> John Kashuba
> Ontario, California
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of Eric
> Wichman
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:07 AM
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Unidentified object from sky destroys car in
> Cottonwood
>
> What?! A meteorite or space debris?
>
> "..A meteorite may have been what smashed into the windshield of a
> Cottonwood couple's sport utility vehicle late last month, destroying
> much of the dashboard and melting some of the glass..."
>
>
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/mar/12/unidentified-object-from-sky-destroy

> s-car-in/
>
> The photos of the supposed "meteorite" look like debris of some sort.
> Not like any meteorite I've ever seen.
>
> Could it be a piece of Satellite, and who was the collector offering
> $10K for the "meteorite"?
>
> Hmm....
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
> www.meteoritesusa.com
>
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