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RE: (meteorobs) Comets hit Spain?
I saw it on the news the day it happened.
One piece hit a car windshield.. it was about a 15-18 inches half-round,
with the flat side carved out like a bowl leaving about 5" thickness
everywhere.
It was more oblong than round. When they say melon sized, this piece looked
more like a water meon sliced lengthwise and carved out... i.e. a large
melon.
When they said it was probably from a passing airliner it surprised me that
this ice was 'normal/water' -coloured instead of ' waste ' -coloured.
At that time they only reported the one piece coming down.
Bruce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Skywayinc@aol.com [SMTP:Skywayinc@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 6:44 PM
> To: meteorobs@jovian.com
> Subject: (meteorobs) Comets hit Spain?
>
> Comet debris falls on Spain
>
>
> Updated 12:06 PM ET January 17, 2000
> MADRID (Reuters) - At least 10 melon-sized ice balls that have slammed
> into
> Spain in the last week are probably debris from comets, not human
> excrement
> as first suspected, a Spanish scientist said Monday.
> Enrique Martinez, head of a team at the Higher Council of Scientific
> Investigation studying the phenomenon, said it was first thought that the
> ice balls were human excrement ejected from high-flying aircraft.
>
> "But they lack the typical coloring and texture we find in those cases,"
> he
> said.
>
> A man in southern Spain escaped injury last week when an eight-inch ice
> ball
> weighing nine pounds smashed into his car.
>
>
> This is the first I heard of this . Did they save a sample?
>
> -- joe rao
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