Raining Gold?

wayne · January 04, 2007, 12:17:12 PM

An object that fell through a roof.

http://apnews.myway.com/image/20070103/Fallen_Object.sff_TN101_20070103145301.html?date=20070104&docid=D8MECKQG1

beemaster · January 04, 2007, 12:19:09 PM

This is only 15 miles from my home - I'll be outside with my hard-hat and bucket - sweet.

buzzbeejr · January 04, 2007, 06:33:36 PM

im coming down with you john and im not gonna wear a hard hat. i mean whats a minor head injury compared to being rich :)

mick · January 05, 2007, 02:15:29 AM

Now that is an interseting thing.

If its true, it can only be a meteorite.

Mici · January 05, 2007, 12:01:03 PM

Quote from: mick on January 05, 2007, 02:15:29 AM
Now that is an interseting thing.

If its true, it can only be a meteorite.

i say aliens are pulling a joke on us.

how can it be a meteorite, we all know what happens to meteors and stuff. now...if it doesn't completely incinirate before it touches the ground, and when it touches down it....has a glorious way of touching down.

Jerrymac · January 05, 2007, 12:07:24 PM

A meteorite would be blackened from all the burning in the atmosphere. This is something someone threw out of a plane just to see what would happen

nepenthes · January 05, 2007, 03:32:15 PM

i highly doubt, it but could it be that the way the chemical combined with the oxygen in the atmosphere gave it a gold looking coat? You know like lets say we give the chemical the name Xy
Xy+O2-->XyO2 (O2 is oxygen)
or the series of chemicals gave it a compound and it just happened like that?

I really doubt thats how it worked though, something to play around with though

mick · January 05, 2007, 04:57:20 PM

A russian rocket plummeted through the atmosphere the other day, I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Im leaning toward a meteorite.

pdmattox · January 05, 2007, 06:32:29 PM

Quote from: nepenthes on January 05, 2007, 03:32:15 PM
i highly doubt, it but could it be that the way the chemical combined with the oxygen in the atmosphere gave it a gold looking coat? You know like lets say we give the chemical the name Xy
Xy+O2-->XyO2 (O2 is oxygen)
or the series of chemicals gave it a compound and it just happened like that?

I really doubt thats how it worked though, something to play around with though

I like your way of thinking.

Jerrymac · January 10, 2007, 12:10:10 AM

Did anyone find out what it was?

beemaster · January 10, 2007, 01:13:55 AM

I saw a local report that verified it was a meteorite that had mostly burnt off during entry, obvious fairly large since only the core survived and it hadn't suffered extreme burning - what remained was NOT identified in the news story though, but they said it WAS amazing heavy and dense for its size. A college lab currently holds it for further testing, but it WILL be returned to the peoples who's home it crashed through.

mick · January 10, 2007, 02:22:19 AM

Those peoples financial worries are over. Casinos pay money for the image of the Virgin Mary on a piece of Toast. Thats gunna be worth at least a million.

If it was me, id be in that lab making sure they didnt knock any off.

Jerrymac · May 12, 2007, 11:27:42 AM

I think this is the one. They finally said what it was.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070512/ap_on_sc/fallen_object;_ylt=Aq71jxCVb3ts2x9GQrvEEcjMWM0F

mick · May 23, 2007, 04:57:30 AM

That kinda makes it even more interesting.

BTW a vouple of months ago an Air New Zealand A/C felw through a fiels of buring russin space junk, close enough to hear the sonic booms as it all fell to earth.

The Russians said " We miscalculated the re entry" Lifes cheap to those russinas!