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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Meteorite, not vandal, smashes car windshield |
| 2009-10-18 |
| An Ontario man thought vandals had smashed his mother's car windshield with rocks but it turned out the rocks came from a meteorite, officials in Canada said. The meteorite's fireball lit up the sky over Ontario Sept. 25 with a light 100 times brighter than the moon. Researchers at the University of Western Ontario tracked the remains of the fireball to Grimsby, Ontario, where Tony Garchinski discovered the windshield of his mother's car shattered and five small black rocks sitting in the driveway, Canwest News Service reported Saturday. Garchinski, 20, eventually saw a news report on the meteorite and called the researchers. Extraterrestrial vandals did in Mum's windshield. The meteorite samples are being studied at the university before being returned to Garchinski. The samples are estimated to be nearly 4.5 billion years old and from the asteroid belt located between Jupiter and Mars, the report said. Hmmmmm....could be a statute of limitations issue here. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #3 Sounds like the dummy just turned them over to the university. Sucker! They'll just sell it after they're done looking at it. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-10-18 21:40 |
| #2 Collectors pay good money for meteorites. Once auctioned off, the fragments should pay for mom's windshield, and more. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2009-10-18 21:26 |
| #1 Wehell, methinks some of the recent fireballs described on SPACEWEATHER + other NET were prob the same which flew oer GUAM-WESTPAC also, save in differing directions. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-18 21:03 |