(meteorobs) Meteorites on The Ground! (Was: To Dirk)

[Steven Kolins]

On Mar 25, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Meteorites USA wrote:

> How big is a pork pie?


I don't know but the pre-launch pre-release
<http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1020> says:

"The Orkney rock has been sent to Vienna to be specially sculpted to the right shape (about the size of a bowler hat) and was then attached to the side of the Russian spacecraft."

As an aside I'd also caution alittle that a Orkney rock isn't clearly defined as sedimentary or whatever or how it compares structurally with different meteorite/asteroid types. But it can't be out of the ballpark, right?

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