[meteorite-list] {MPML} 2010 AL30: Bright (14th mag) newly-discovered close approaching object

From: Alexander Seidel <gsac_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:46:39 +0100
Message-ID: <20100112184639.33570_at_gmx.net>

If it were a manmade object from the early years of space travel,
may be a rocket stage or something like this from the Apollo era,
and it would impact, and some debris of this would survive, I
would LOVE to have this artifact in my collection... :-)

Alex
Berlin/Germany



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> Datum: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:05:32 -0800
> Von: Jason Utas <meteoritekid at gmail.com>
> An: Richard Kowalski <kowalski at lpl.arizona.edu>, Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] {MPML} 2010 AL30: Bright (14th mag) newly-discovered close approaching object

> Hello Richard, All,
> 60 feet or meters - either way you're getting a crater unless you get
> a spectacular strewnfield for some reason (I'm thinking on a
> Gibeon-ish scale, which we all know is unique). 60 meters would
> likely be larger than the Canyon Diablo impact, depending on the
> impactor's composition and velocity, and you wouldn't want to be
> within a hundred miles of that one - if you value your general health
> and eardrums. A 60 foot impactor, on the other hand - well, again, it
> depends on its size and composition. Some size estimates for the
> Meteor Crater impactor run as low as 80 feet.
> - So you probably don't want to be close enough to see it. The
> shockwave at "a few 10s of kilometers" would be devastating.
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/meteorcr.html
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Richard Kowalski
> <kowalski at lpl.arizona.edu> wrote:
> > Richard Kowalski wrote:
> >>
> >> Bill,
> >>
> >> I know of a large number of meteorite hunters and collectors that would
> be
> >> rushing towards the impact zone for an object this size and smaller.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how close I'd want to be to a 60 meter...
> >
> >
> > Sorry I meant 60 foot
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> >
> >
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