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Skriven 2006-04-24 21:38:01 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
    Kommentar till text 610 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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 ml> still got it? it may very well be a meteorite... how bad a dent 
 ml> did it make? i've seen pics of some that have hit cars so hard 
 ml> that they have pretty much bent the roof to the ground...

 ML> I don't think it was a meteorite because Carol reports it
 ML> was between the size of a baseball and a football, although
 ML> with edges to produce rough and jagged scratches on the car
 ML> hood: a meteorite that size would probably have totalled the front
 ML> end and the engine at least. 

very very very true... one of the  ones that i've seen was the size of an
english pea and it totaled the car when it struck the trunk lid and went thru
at an angle to the bumber at the frame joint...

 ML> Also there's no indication of heat damage. If it had been a 
 ML> meteorite, though, I understand that it would have resale value 
 ML> perhaps exceeding that of the car.

got that right... but i'm not so sure about any heat damage on the vehicle...
it sounds like something that may possibly have been tossed from between a set
of tractor trailer duals or possibly by a human from some overhead location...

 ML> Glen the engineer also put this as a hypothesis, and then
 ML> suggested that a speeding truck up ahead spewed the debris
 ML> up from beneath the tires - but I will have to set him
 ML> right about the size of a baseball.

i've seen large cats, 'possums, and 'coons stuck between the tires of a set of
duals on tractor trailers... it may be possible that a baseball might stick
there depending on the setup...

 ML> We are relying on Carol's testimony that the thing came from a
 ML> great height: but remember this is a little low car, and
 ML> her attention would have been focused on the road, and
 ML> something that came from outside her normal driving field of vision
 ML> would have appeared to come from the heavens. My idea is that it
 ML> could have come from as low as 20 feet up, and it would have given
 ML> the impression that it had appeared out of nowhere.

hehehe... i hear ya... any overpass, walkover, or even an area where there may
have been overhanging trees would afford someone with the poo to do such a
thing the necessary coverage...

)\/(ark

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