(meteorobs) Meteorite pix

[Chris Peterson]

Most likely the meteorite just bounced on the cold hard ice and ended up 
where it did. Then, the stone heated up in the Sun and began melting into 
the ice sheet. A lot of Tagish Lake was eventually lost that way (melting 
through into the underlying water). If you live somewhere with frozen ponds, 
put a black rock out on the ice. It will slowly sink if you have sunny days.

This meteorite fragment doesn't seem to be large enough to have a 
temperature significantly different from the ambient air at the time of 
impact- most likely a bit below ambient.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob71741" <bob71741 at yahoo.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteorite pix


> That's an interesting 1st photo of Ellen looking at the meteorite in
> the frozen pond. I would have thought that the meteorite would have
> bounced off of the ice on initial impact leaving an impact crater, but
> the photo shows that a crater exists by the raised edge around the
> meteorite; or, perhaps that is refrozen water from the heat of the
> meteorite where the meteorite terminally ended up at.
>
> Never-the-less very interesting.
>
> Bob