whoops!

 

So, does this mean it's a Transformer? 'Cause if it is....

The boiling water part got me very interested.

 

Man, a meteor falling near a town, and then the people begin to get sick out of nothing?
Damn that's weird.

 

My vote goes to mentally induced illness. Its all in their heads.

That...or there was some toxic element in the actual crashedspacething itself that became airborne.

Yeah, way to take the fun out of it >.>
DN

 

Yah, my bad, I farted... and I was in Peru.

 

Not always, and not even usually. Hot meteorites have been reported, but so have very cold ones, and even warm ones - and the latter two are better supported by the math. While the heat of re-entry is pretty hellish, meteors don't really spend a lot of time doing it, and there's not much of a chance for conduction to heat the core of the meteor before it hits. Picture trying to cook a frozen chicken with a flamethrower.

It's possible that a meteor with a shallow (read: long) entry, and a stony iron composition could have taken on enough heat to boil water, but I don't know how well that jibes with other details, like the shape of the crater.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=215

 

check out the brains on phy!

 

I see Leno making a joke about it on his show…

"Based on the pungent smell, scientists have come to the conclusion that the meteorite came from planet 'New Jersey'."

*it was funnier in my head…*

 

Someone should write a book about this!

 

Interesting, but also a little disappointing. I was hoping for something more along the lines of what happened to Steven King in the first Creepshow.


"Meteor shit!"

 

Maybe meteors are just floating space poop. I mean, If aliens can travel so far, you think they'd actually leave their poo at home?

 

Das updaten.

From the Big Yellow Border: It may indeed have been a large, slow, hot meteorite, and the location it hit (near everyone's favorite lake, Titicaca) has arsenic in the groundwater.

 

aw. how awfully pedestrian.

way to go science on killing romance.