[ale] RHEL-6.1 system with 4 CPU sockets and 1TB of memory

William Bagwell rb211 at tds.net
Mon Feb 6 09:50:56 EST 2012


On Monday 06 February 2012, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> How can they be sure it is the ONLY one to ever hit a car?

Good point, a recent post to the meteorite-list suggests there are at 
least six know incidents of a meteorite hitting a car.

http://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list%40meteoritecentral.com/msg102445.html

Summarized below,

1938 09 29    Benld, IL, USA         building and car hit by stony 
[12, 13]
                                      meteorites; the car was hit by
                                      a 4-pound fragment after it
                                      crashed through the roof of a
                                      garage, then through roof, seat,
                                      and floorboards of car


1950 12 10    St. Louis, MO, USA     car hit by meteorite 
[12]



1965 12 24    Barwell, England       two buildings and a car hit by 
[12]
                                      by meteorites

1977 01 31    Louisville, KY, USA    three buildings and a car hit by 
[12]
                                      meteorites

1992 10 09    Peekskill, NY, USA     car hit by meteorite, which 
[7]
                                      passed through steel trunk
                                      and impacted ground underneath;
                                      fireball widely visible and
                                      imaged along east coast

1994 06 21    near Getafe, Spain     12-cm-wide, 1.4-kg meteorite 
[11]
                                      broke windshield and bent
                                      steering wheel of moving car,
                                      breaking finger of driver;
                                      more than 50 kg of meteorites
                                      found within 200 m of accident
-- 
William





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