Meteorite "photographed" hitting Earth
Dale Hooper wrote:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11483286%255E13762,00.html
Hmmm, is that a bowling ball I see falling away from the lamp post? :-) Patrick
At first I thought it was Patrick's parachute and that he had landed (sans 'chute) somewhere in the water. Then I noticed that the trajectory was probably too flat too have been a body falling from an airplane. Regardless...amazing photo, no? Kim Hyatt Architect 1849 East 1300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 801.631.5228 kimharch@msn.com<mailto:kimharch@msn.com> serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Wiggins<mailto:paw@trilobyte.net> To: Utah Astronomy<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteorite "photographed" hitting Earth Dale Hooper wrote:
Hmmm, is that a bowling ball I see falling away from the lamp post? :-) Patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy<http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com<http://www.utahastronomy.com/>
I'm now ever more certain there was nothing to the story. I just did a search in the same paper for a followup article and found nothing. However, I did find this bizarre story: +++++ Meteor scare motivates children November 20, 2004 LONDON: A school teacher, trying to motivate her pupils to make the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to hit the Earth and they should all go home and say goodbye to their families, a report said yesterday. The teacher at a high school in Manchester only realized her lecture had been misinterpreted when many of the 250 assembled teenagers started crying, The Sun newspaper reported. After the 13 and 14-year-olds looked at her in horror, the teacher explained she was only trying to encourage them to "seize the day". "Some of the children were convinced they were going to die," the father of one child told the paper. +++++ Another report stated the teacher worked at a Catholic high school. She should have known that at such a school when it came to telling such stories they would have nun of that... :-) Patrick Kim Hyatt wrote:
At first I thought it was Patrick's parachute and that he had landed (sans 'chute) somewhere in the water. Then I noticed that the trajectory was probably too flat too have been a body falling from an airplane.
Regardless...amazing photo, no?
Kim Hyatt Architect 1849 East 1300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 801.631.5228 kimharch@msn.com<mailto:kimharch@msn.com>
serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Wiggins<mailto:paw@trilobyte.net> To: Utah Astronomy<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:12 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteorite "photographed" hitting Earth
Dale Hooper wrote:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11483286%255E13762,00
Hmmm, is that a bowling ball I see falling away from the lamp post? :-)
Patrickk
That's a pretty funny story Patrick. Thanks... Today, FOX news has been running the story about the upcoming December 30th launch of the 'Deep impact' spacecraft which will meet and attempt to dismantle a comet called 'Comet Tempel 1" on or about July 4th. They were reporting that the event may be visible to the naked eye. Here's the official NASA web site and story for those besides me, who had not until now heard of this. <http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/press/041018jpl.html> Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:
However, I did find this bizarre story: +++++
Meteor scare motivates children
November 20, 2004
LONDON: A school teacher, trying to motivate her pupils to make the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to hit the Earth and they should all go home and say goodbye to their families, a report said yesterday.
The teacher at a high school in Manchester only realized her lecture had been misinterpreted when many of the 250 assembled teenagers started crying, The Sun newspaper reported.
diveboss@xmission.com wrote:
Today, FOX news has been running the story about the upcoming December 30th launch of the 'Deep impact' spacecraft which will meet and attempt to dismantle a comet called 'Comet Tempel 1" on or about July 4th. They were reporting that the event may be visible to the naked eye.
Unfortunately they slipped the launch at least a week (so much for accuracy in media at Fox) to no earlier than 8 January. I hope that does not slip the impact as it would be fun to talk about cosmic fireworks on the 4th of July. And I suppose it would be visible to the naked eye...if one were riding the impactor (visions of Dr. Strangelove). Patrick :-)
Quoting Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net>:
(so much for accuracy in media at Fox)
Patrick, At least FOX News said something about it. I'm sure the very accurate news folks over at the Clinton News Network would have said something, if they hadn't been so busy seeking post election therapy... ;)
Hi all, a moment of levity. Here's a note passed along by a colleague. Best wishes, Joe Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (This is supposed to be a True Story) Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow. The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions. NASA responded with a one-line memo -- "Defrost the chicken." (Urban Legend or True Story ?)
Joe, I love it - please verify whether or not this is a true story!! Kim Hyatt Architect 1849 East 1300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 801.631.5228 kimharch@msn.com<mailto:kimharch@msn.com> serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Bauman<mailto:bau@desnews.com> To: Utah Astronomy<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 3:00 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Nuff disputin' Hi all, a moment of levity. Here's a note passed along by a colleague. Best wishes, Joe Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (This is supposed to be a True Story) Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow. The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions. NASA responded with a one-line memo -- "Defrost the chicken." (Urban Legend or True Story ?) _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy<http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com<http://www.utahastronomy.com/>
Aloha This event was verified on Discovery channel yesterday on the program "Mythbusters", I hope you all saw it. FUN!! Aloha Rob
I would actually appreciate no jokes on this list that poke fun at killing animals in any way. Thank you. Cynthia Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi all, a moment of levity. Here's a note passed along by a colleague. Best wishes, Joe
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!
(This is supposed to be a True Story)
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of
the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo --
"Defrost the chicken."
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Cyndi, I agree that poking fun at killing animals is not a good thing to do. Also, the general tone of this discussion board should be civil. I respectfully submit this joke is not about the killing of animals, it's not even about a dead animal although it does involve a frozen chicken which is, presumably, already dead. The Brits clearly are the butt of this joke. We all have our buttons, i.e., those things that set us off. Personally I am much more offended by comments denegrading our President. In response to a question that accompanied the comment in question, yes, it does make my blood boil! Siegfried Quoting Cynthia Blue <leviblue@utahdogs.com>:
I would actually appreciate no jokes on this list that poke fun at killing animals in any way. Thank you. Cynthia
Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi all, a moment of levity. Here's a note passed along by a colleague. Best wishes, Joe
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!
(This is supposed to be a True Story)
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of
the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo --
"Defrost the chicken."
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Live birds are not used in these tests. They are all chickens that have been through the packing house, just like you buy at the store. In years past live birds were used, but the practice was discontinued in the US for humane reasons. Brent --- Cynthia Blue <leviblue@utahdogs.com> wrote:
I would actually appreciate no jokes on this list that poke fun at killing animals in any way. Thank you. Cynthia
Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi all, a moment of levity. Here's a note passed along by a colleague. Best wishes, Joe
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!
(This is supposed to be a True Story)
Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of
the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo --
"Defrost the chicken."
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I had to go back and have another look, perhaps there was something in the photo I missed seeing. Sure enough. I missed seeing anything resembling a meteor. I agree with you Kim, amazing photo, no. Have another look. See if you can't see it either... ;) Quoting Kim Hyatt <kimharch@msn.com>:
Regardless...amazing photo, no?
Did everyone else miss the faint, dark streak that moved diagonally from upper left toward the center (and alleged impact) in the frame? I suppose that a meteorite (meteoroid?) is a plausible explanation; if so, yes, it would be an amazing photo. However, I haven't forgotten Occam's Razor. Kim Hyatt Architect 1849 East 1300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 801.631.5228 kimharch@msn.com<mailto:kimharch@msn.com> serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: diveboss@xmission.com<mailto:diveboss@xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteorite "photographed" hitting Earth I had to go back and have another look, perhaps there was something in the photo I missed seeing. Sure enough. I missed seeing anything resembling a meteor. I agree with you Kim, amazing photo, no. Have another look. See if you can't see it either... ;) Quoting Kim Hyatt <kimharch@msn.com<mailto:kimharch@msn.com>>:
Regardless...amazing photo, no?
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I guess it's time to break out the windex. The only dark streak I see on my computers monitor moving diagnally from the upper left corner of the picture towards the center, looks like one of those cheezy arrows you see in the pages of the 'rag mags' which litter the magazine racks of grocery store checkout counters. But seriously, IF it is indeed a real photo of a meteorite coming in for a landing, it would be amazing. Speaking of cheezy, did anyone catch the image of the Virgin Mary in the grilled cheese sandwich that sold on ebay for $28,000??? I spent most of my time at dinner yesterday carefully looking over the yams, dressing and cranberries. I was looking for anything that would resemble anyone famous. I seen a couple images of local folks but nothing famous enough to stop eating. Just think of what the club could do with an extra $28 grand. If I carefully move some potatoes a little this way, and throw in a dash of gravy over there... Doh! Now it looks like Patrick! ;) Just kidding. Quoting Kim Hyatt <kimharch@msn.com>:
Did everyone else miss the faint, dark streak that moved diagonally from upper left toward the center (and alleged impact) in the frame? I suppose that a meteorite (meteoroid?) is a plausible explanation; if so, yes, it would be an amazing photo. However, I haven't forgotten Occam's Razor.
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serius est quam cogitas ----- Original Message ----- From: diveboss@xmission.com<mailto:diveboss@xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteorite "photographed" hitting Earth
I had to go back and have another look, perhaps there was something in the photo I missed seeing. Sure enough. I missed seeing anything resembling a meteor. I agree with you Kim, amazing photo, no.
Have another look. See if you can't see it either... ;)
Quoting Kim Hyatt <kimharch@msn.com<mailto:kimharch@msn.com>>:
Regardless...amazing photo, no?
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