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Peekskill Meteorite Car

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:37:57 GMT

clipped by: jetcloud
clipper's remarks: I just love meteorites.

Not only is our Peekskill Meteorite car world famous — it has been around the world. Click on any country name, above, to see pictures from the Peekskill Meteorite Car's international tour!

S. Eichmiller's extraordinary photo of the Peekskill fireball of October 9, 1992

The impact of a twelve and a half kilo H6 chondrite into the back of Ms. Michelle Knapp's parked car on the evening of October 9, 1992 is the best known meteoritic event of modern times. Everyone has heard of the "car that was hit by a meteorite."

R.A. Langheinrich Meteorites own the world-famous car, and this vehicle has seen the world too. The battered red Malibu coupe has been featured in museums and exhibitions in New York City, Tucson, Arizona, Paris, Switzerland, Germany, and Tokyo! It has brought wonder and amazement to the thousands of people who have flocked to see the car who's trunk was caved in by a visitor from outer space.

follow its journey by clicking on

the links below, or on the country names above.

Tags: meteorite, fireball

Massive Fireball Carancas, Peru

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:36:45 GMT

clipped by: jetcloud
clipper's remarks: "Witnesses describe a massive ball of fire which slammed into the ground, creating a mushroom cloud of smoke, steam and dust, and shook the ground like an earthquake. Many windows were broken in the village of Carancas as well. People who arrived at the fall site within minutes of the impact report that the crater rapidly filled with water, which was boiling, and erupting nauseous steam that smelled overwhelmingly of sulfur. Many people reportedly were sickened by the gasses, and media reports of hundreds sickened were vastly exaggerated. The fear created by such a traumatic even likely caused mass hysteria and the fear of the object almost certainly played a part in the reports of illnesses.'

Clip Source: meteoriteguy.com

Fell September 15, 2007 at ~11:45 AM.

At ~11:45 am on September the 15th, 2007 a massive fireball entered the atmosphere over Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. The fireball was larger and brighter than the sun, and rapidly moved over the lake on the Bolivian side, and along the border with Peru. It crossed over the town of Desaguadero which straddles both countries, and broke many windows as it passed overhead at what must have been supersonic speed! Within a couple of seconds, the meteorite impacted in the village of Carancas, Peru, less than 4 kilometers from Bolivia. When the meteorite impacted the soft, wet soil, it created a large crater measuring over 13.8 meters in diameter and 3 meters deep. Ejecta was thrown in all directions up to 150 meters away.

This meteorite fall will be one of the most studied and important meteorite falls in the last few decades, and I am distributing pieces to laboratories all over the world.

his is a photo of the Carancas meteorite smoke trail

Tags: fireball, meteorite, smoke trail

Fireball

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:45:54 GMT

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Clip Source: spaceweather.com

NEW MEXICO FIREBALL: On Sept 13th at approximately 3 o'clock in the morning MDT, an extremely bright fireball streaked over New Mexico, "It was terrifying," says eyewitness Susan K. Burgess. "I was stargazing outside my house near Santa Fe when the landscape started becoming very bright, as if a brilliant full moon was quickly rising from the southwest. The fireball itself [slowly moved] over the house and disintegrated with a great deal of scatter in the northwest sky."

At the Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, a Sentinel all-sky video camera captured the fireball in flight:

Based on data from the video, the visual magnitude of the fireball was -14.6, about four times brighter than a full Moon!

"The fireball was a pure emerald green, uncomfortably bright to look at,"

"The object was disintegrating when I saw it, with pieces parallel-tracking and trailing the fireball. Those smaller pieces had all different colors--most notably red. I think it has been a piece of space junk."

Tags: fireball, spacejunk