Showers ground firefighting aircraft in Colorado

[Oberon]

I imagine the chances of rock and plane interaction are pretty remote...but the results pretty catastrophic.

Of course, it could also be because they don't want the Martians heat-raying them out of the sky...

Entirely possible that a meteorite caused the wildfire in the first place, you never know...

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Entirely possible that a meteorite caused the wildfire in the first place, you never know...

many people think that a meteorite, after it hits the ground, is very hot and glows red. Actually, meteorites found shortly after impact tend to be warm, but not hot at all! It turns out that it certainly is hot enough to glow while it is in the part of the atmosphere that decelerates it the strongest, but any part that actually melts will be blown off ("ablated") by the wind of its passage. That leaves only the warm part.

From: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/meteoric.html

Actually since that rock just spent the last few billion years near absolute zero its more likely to be burning cold than burning hot when it hits the ground. If its warm its going to be like a shirt that came out of a dryer or your microwave burrito. If it caused a fire its probably because it hit something man made, like a power transformer.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

From: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/meteoric.html

Actually since that rock just spent the last few billion years near absolute zero its more likely to be burning cold than burning hot when it hits the ground. If its warm its going to be like a shirt that came out of a dryer or your microwave burrito. If it caused a fire its probably because it hit something man made, like a power transformer.

I...I...meant to say that it hit something man-made...errr...

Errr...