BS: Bobert, meteorite query

Subject: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:51 AM

Say, Bobert, remember when you told us you are 'coming from space' and I asked you to send a nice meteorite to my yard?

ahem. What do you know about the meteorite which just struck a clinic in Virginia?

went through the roof

Were you aiming for a certain place in West Virginia? Did you miss?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 10:12 AM

The doc must have been doing some kind of satanic-commie-liberal-type stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: olddude
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 10:30 AM

he was drinkin shine and throwing rocks

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:02 AM

I wondered if the anti-choice folks had really gone to heaven and "cast out stones!" (Depending on what kind of doc he is:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: Rapparee
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 11:07 AM

Veterinarian?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 02:46 PM

Any other pics... that link won't work for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 03:19 PM

The link didn't work for me either.

Try a news bit from MSNBC. Not much for pictures but there's a separate video you can try loading, and the article gives the story.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 05:19 PM

I think some of you don't realize how WONDERFUL it is to have a meteorite come right into your place, especially if it doesn't hit anybody. Some people spend years looking for something like this.

This is a 4.5 billion year-old chunk from outer space. It's also worth money.

I can't believe those media people are too dumb to say what kind it is. Well, no, actually I can believe it.

But I want to know what kind it is. Stony iron, pallasite, chondrite? This is important!

And if I were the doc, I wouldn't give all of it to the Smithsonian. I would keep a piece for my rock collection.

We have yet to hear of Bobert's role in all this. He must be working on the hotel.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: gnu
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 05:32 PM

Fortifying the roof?

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 05:54 PM

First of all, my pudder won't show me this meteorite and second, even if it could, I had nuthin' to do with it... Might of fact I don't own no meteorites, I don't take my neigbors out fir no joy rides and further more I did not have sex with that womanz...

That all I'm sayin' fir now umless anyone has pictorial evidence that hooks me up with any of these things...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 07:29 PM

leeneia, you're right! I wouldn't let them have it all, either. It's so incredibly old as you said and what're the chances?!

Oh, there's a good article and video HERE which shows the hole inside and out and also two of the docs who work there.

It sounds as if the outside of the rock is like obsidian...melted glass is how they described it.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: Sawzaw
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:21 PM

Meteorite Crashes Through Lorton Virginia Doctor's Office

Jan 21, 2010 08:39 PM ET

Usually, I'm skeptical of any reports about chunks of space rock hitting vehicles, property, people or pets, as most instances have far more likely (and terrestrial) explanations.

Many accounts of meteorite strikes are hoaxes whereas others can be blamed on the Russian military dropping bags of cement from planes (really). But this report has been verified by meteorite experts at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., Dr. Cari Corrigan and Linda Welzenbach.

A meteorite "no bigger than the size of a mango," according to a local news station, slammed into a doctor's office in Lorton, Va. on Monday, punching a hole through the roof, a firewall, ceiling and then drove a divot into an examination room floor before shattering.

Fortunately, no one was hurt, but this all happened a little after 5:30 pm, a short time after patients and medical professionals occupied that room. As far as close encounters go, this was a very close call.

"I recollect that this will be the fourth fall in Virginia," Dr. Welzenbach said while handling the suspect meteorite. "It's got a fusion crust -- this is what's happened after it's passed through the atmosphere."

The chondrite is estimated to have hit the building at a velocity of over 220 miles per hour (354 km/hr).

Most meteorites collected around the planet are confirmed to be chondrites. Chondrites are very important to scientists as the interior of the meteorite is untouched by the heat from re-entry through the atmosphere. Inside, primordial material from the formation of the solar system can then be studied.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Jan 10 - 09:24 PM

I thought Bobert was into blues, not rock.

Subject: RE: BS: Bobert, meteorite query
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 28 Jan 10 - 11:04 AM

Good one, 999!

Thanks for the link, kat, and the info, Sawzaw. The fusion crust would be like obsidian in the sense that it is rocky material which cooled so fast that it formed a glass, rather than crystals.

It's a chondrite. That means it has glassy blobs (chondrules) in it.

Bobert, we believe you.