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Title: Raining Gold?
Post by: wayne on January 04, 2007, 12:17:12 pm
An object that fell through a roof.

http://apnews.myway.com/image/20070103/Fallen_Object.sff_TN101_20070103145301.html?date=20070104&docid=D8MECKQG1
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: beemaster on January 04, 2007, 12:19:09 pm
This is only 15 miles from my home - I'll be outside with my hard-hat and bucket - sweet.
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: buzzbeejr on January 04, 2007, 06:33:36 pm
im coming down with you john and im not gonna wear a hard hat. i mean whats a minor head injury compared to being rich :)
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: mick on January 05, 2007, 02:15:29 am
Now that is an interseting thing.

If its true, it can only be a meteorite.
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: Mici on January 05, 2007, 12:01:03 pm
Now that is an interseting thing.

If its true, it can only be a meteorite.

i say aliens are pulling a joke on us.


how can it be a meteorite, we all know what happens to meteors and stuff. now...if it doesn't completely incinirate before it touches the ground, and when it touches down it....has a glorious way of touching down.
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: Jerrymac on January 05, 2007, 12:07:24 pm
A meteorite would be blackened from all the burning in the atmosphere. This is something someone threw out of a plane just to see what would happen
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: nepenthes on January 05, 2007, 03:32:15 pm
i highly doubt, it but could it be that the way the chemical combined with the oxygen in the atmosphere gave it a gold looking coat? You know like lets say we give the chemical the name Xy
Xy+O2-->XyO2  (O2 is oxygen)
or the series of chemicals gave it a compound and it just happened like that?

I really doubt thats how it worked though, something to play around with though
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: mick on January 05, 2007, 04:57:20 pm
A russian rocket plummeted through the atmosphere the other day, I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Im leaning toward a meteorite.
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: pdmattox on January 05, 2007, 06:32:29 pm
i highly doubt, it but could it be that the way the chemical combined with the oxygen in the atmosphere gave it a gold looking coat? You know like lets say we give the chemical the name Xy
Xy+O2-->XyO2  (O2 is oxygen)
or the series of chemicals gave it a compound and it just happened like that?

I really doubt thats how it worked though, something to play around with though

I like your way of thinking.
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: Jerrymac on January 10, 2007, 12:10:10 am
Did anyone find out what it was?
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: beemaster on January 10, 2007, 01:13:55 am
I saw a local report that verified it was a meteorite that had mostly burnt off during entry, obvious fairly large since only the core survived and it hadn't suffered extreme burning - what remained was NOT identified in the news story though, but they said it WAS amazing heavy and dense for its size. A college lab currently holds it for further testing, but it WILL be returned to the peoples who's home it crashed through.
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: mick on January 10, 2007, 02:22:19 am
Those peoples financial worries are over. Casinos pay money for the image of the Virgin Mary on a piece of Toast. Thats gunna be worth at least a million.

If it was me, id be in that lab making sure they didnt knock any off.

Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: Jerrymac on May 12, 2007, 11:27:42 am
I think this is the one. They finally said what it was.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070512/ap_on_sc/fallen_object;_ylt=Aq71jxCVb3ts2x9GQrvEEcjMWM0F
Title: Re: Raining Gold?
Post by: mick on May 23, 2007, 04:57:30 am
That kinda makes it even more interesting.

BTW a vouple of months ago an Air New Zealand A/C felw through a fiels of buring russin space junk, close enough to hear the sonic booms as it all fell to earth.

The Russians said " We miscalculated the re entry" Lifes cheap to those russinas!