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To: DuncanWaring

Depending upon the makeup of the object itself, there could be ill effects from the smoke or smaller fragments breaking off. The notion of meteorites being toxic isn’t entirely a creation of comic books and science fiction.


29 posted on 02/17/2013 8:39:12 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

If those fragments happen to be a carbonaceous chondrite it is worth $10,000 per gram if found.


31 posted on 02/17/2013 8:50:27 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

I wasn’t even considering the potential toxicity - I was wondering just about the physical effects of a large hypersonic object passing low “overhead”.


35 posted on 02/17/2013 10:01:57 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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