On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, developtrust wrote:

> Well, as they say a size of a football field caused an ice age that wiped
> out the dinosaurs, then the size of a football at the same speed can do
> what?

About what you see.  Remember that mass varies with the cube of diameter.

> I'm no physicist or rocket scientists but I still do not believe it. I
> think it could have caused a massive explosion.

Of what?  Rock doesn't explode.  Steel doesn't explode.  It missed the gas
tank (though not by much.)

> I just can not believe a rock that size traveling at high enough speed to
> burn in our atmosphere will only go through a vehicle without an explosion.
> Maybe it was dropped from a plane to create a hoax.
>

And the people who videotaped the fireball were looking at what, exactly?
I'm curious where the person who dropped it from the airplane got a rock
with exactly the same composition as a meteorite, too...they're not
exactly common...

This thing is the size of a bowling ball, and only a bit more massive.  I
think you're greatly underestimating the amount of force it takes to
puncture a car with a blunt object.  (And maybe overestimating the impact
force.)

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