A Meteorite Tried to Get my Boy! - Page 2

Eichhörnchen · 10-19-24, 11:29 AM

Monday 7th October (the week before last) and we were at the mother in law's bungalow. For a couple of days the weathermen had been going on about record sightings of shooting stars in the sky over the UK but it had been too cloudy for us to see anything much

It was late afternoon and getting dark - Moira and her mother arrived home in a cab having been shopping so I went out to help. Our son closed the driveway gates behind me to keep the dogs in and waited on the concrete apron, which is just a continuation of the drive alongside the house & into the garage. As we were unloading bags from the cab there was an almighty bang from somewhere near the gates and my boy called out "Did you hear that?"

We had no idea what it was and I was just going to ignore it until Moira called me back outside. "It was a rock" said our lad - "There it is!" He pointed to it and where it had hit the wheelie-bin right next to where he'd been standing - and I have no doubt that given the terrific bang it made it might easily have killed him if he'd been in the way

Moira assumed that someone had thrown it - unlikely in this fairly genteel neighbourhood - I was already thinking about the meteorite showers supposedly going on at that very time

I'm wondering what you guys think - is it from outer space or off some grumpy neighbour's drive? It's only 5cm along its longest edge but it's hefty - feels like maybe there's iron in it. It doesn't look like it should be so heavy given that it seems to be porous. It's quite evenly pitted all over and looks like a volcanic rock.

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Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,380 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	A Meteorite Tried to Get my Boy! Monday 7th October (the week before last) and we were at the mother in law's bungalow. For a couple of days the weathermen had been going on about record sightings of shooting stars in the sky over the UK but it had been too cloudy for us to see anything much It was late afternoon and getting dark - Moira and her mother arrived home in a cab having been shopping so I went out to help. Our son closed the driveway gates behind me to keep the dogs in and waited on the concrete apron, which is just a continuation of the drive alongside the house & into the garage. As we were unloading bags from the cab there was an almighty bang from somewhere near the gates and my boy called out "Did you hear that?" We had no idea what it was and I was just going to ignore it until Moira called me back outside. "It was a rock" said our lad - "There it is!" He pointed to it and where it had hit the wheelie-bin right next to where he'd been standing - and I have no doubt that given the terrific bang it made it might easily have killed him if he'd been in the way Moira assumed that someone had thrown it - unlikely in this fairly genteel neighbourhood - I was already thinking about the meteorite showers supposedly going on at that very time I'm wondering what you guys think - is it from outer space or off some grumpy neighbour's drive? It's only 5cm along its longest edge but it's hefty - feels like maybe there's iron in it. It doesn't look like it should be so heavy given that it seems to be porous. It's quite evenly pitted all over and looks like a volcanic rock. __________________ Last edited by Eichhörnchen; 10-19-24 at 12:07 PM.