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pair8head wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090612/ ... ymeteorite

did you join at exactly 7:00 PM on purpose

The article implied the fragment was metal.

I would recommend to the young German lad that he retain a lawyer, have the fragment analyzed, make the case that it came from a piece of 'space junk', and then sue either the richest space-faring nation on the planet (the U.S.), or alternately the most active space-faring nation on the planet (Russia), or both, for pain and suffering.

that has got to hurt....

That has got to be *scary*.

flyboy55 wrote:The article implied the fragment was metal.

I would recommend to the young German lad that he retain a lawyer, have the fragment analyzed, make the case that it came from a piece of 'space junk', and then sue either the richest space-faring nation on the planet (the U.S.), or alternately the most active space-faring nation on the planet (Russia), or both, for pain and suffering.

Ummm aren't most meteorites fragments that actually land and are found, usually some sort of metal???

Don't forget China with the debris from their ASAT testing. There are others invovled in the "Space race" as well. Wouldn't it be rather difficult to blame any particular space agency IF the object was manmade, unless it was documentabe debris? Odds might be in favor of blaming the largest producer of space junk being responsible. However that does not neccessarily make that particular agency solely responsible, does it?

Spider Johnson wrote:

flyboy55 wrote:The article implied the fragment was metal.

I would recommend to the young German lad that he retain a lawyer, have the fragment analyzed, make the case that it came from a piece of 'space junk', and then sue either the richest space-faring nation on the planet (the U.S.), or alternately the most active space-faring nation on the planet (Russia), or both, for pain and suffering.

Ummm aren't most meteorites fragments that actually land and are found, usually some sort of metal???

Don't forget China with the debris from their ASAT testing. There are others invovled in the "Space race" as well. Wouldn't it be rather difficult to blame any particular space agency IF the object was manmade, unless it was documentabe debris? Odds might be in favor of blaming the largest producer of space junk being responsible. However that does not neccessarily make that particular agency solely responsible, does it?

Listen. Don't try to confuse me with facts. I'm only trying to help the kid make some money.

This reminds me of a volleyball sized meteorite that my brother and I found in the woods near our home the day after watching an awesome meteor shower.
We took it to our elementary school for show and tell and never got it back