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

From: ensoramanda at ntlworld.com <ensoramanda_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 0:47:06 +0100
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And Barwell, UK

Graham E UK

---- Matt Morgan <mail at mhmeteorites.com> wrote:
> And Worden (Michigan).
> Matt
> ----------------------
> Matt Morgan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Fujihara <fujmon at mac.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:31:01
> To: Greg Stanley<stanleygregr at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Grimsby family shows off visitor from space
>
> 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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