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| German cottage destroyed by meteor |
| 2006-10-21 |
| Yet an another innocent victim of Halliburton! BERLIN (Reuters) - A fire that destroyed a cottage near Bonn and injured a 77-year-old man was probably caused by a meteor and witnesses saw an arc of blazing light in the sky, German police said on Friday. Burkhard Rick, a spokesman for the police in Siegburg east of Bonn, said the fire gutted the cottage and badly burned the man's hands and face in the incident on October 10. "We sought assistance from Bochum observatory and they noted that at that particular moment the earth was near a field of meteoroid splinter and it could be assumed that particles had entered the atmosphere," he said. "The particles usually don't reach the surface because they disintegrate in the atmosphere," he added. "But some can make it to the ground. We believe this was a bolide (meteoric fireball) with a size of no more than 10 mm." |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #7 The admittedly minor impact could have ruptured a gas line or shorted some wiring. That's all I can attribute the subsequent fire to. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-21 23:57 |
| #6 Right, 10mm bolide would maybe make a small hole in the roof, but not burn down the house. Okay, how about a thunderbolt? |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-10-21 18:09 |
| #5 German cottage destroyed by meteor hot kryptonite plasma burnz like Hades. |
| Posted by: Persephone 2006-10-21 15:57 |
| #4 It doesn't add up, for me. A sub 10mm particle couldn't sustain enough airspeed to stay hot enough to start a fire, or to penetrate a roof. Yah. Have to agree with Grunter here. Not enough speed, not enough energy, and not enough heat to even penetrate the roof. Something's flakey here. The "arc of blazing light" doesn't fit with a 10mm bolide either. Something much bigger smashed down here. ('Course, maybe the little grey guys were just collectin' a specimen again) :-) |
| Posted by: FOTSGreg 2006-10-21 15:41 |
| #3 It doesn't add up, for me. A sub 10mm particle couldn't sustain enough airspeed to stay hot enough to start a fire, or to penetrate a roof. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2006-10-21 14:16 |
| #2 It's a parallel thing to tornados and trailer parks. Sort of games elementals play. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-10-21 12:29 |
| #1 Meteors - why do they hate cottages? |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-10-21 11:15 |