Here is the rest of what they said; you might as well have it all so you can give him the facts, since he doesn't know what he's talking about:
To: Howlin
20X16X6, weight 2.67 pounds.
Size determined in two ways: looked at film and estimated.
Secondly, utlilized information from 112 -- they had the film the flight crew took as the ET separated from the orbiter.
288 posted on 02/03/2003 5:16 PM EST by Howlin
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Sounds about like the density of dense foam insulation. I'm thinking that its that kind-of hard, brittle stuff that turns to dust when you hit it with a baseball bat. At any rate, its quite a bit larger than a laptop computer and much lighter. I don't think this stuff can even break glass if that's what it is.
Someone else raised the doubt that this foam object hitting the wing is the initial cause. I really don't know, but I'm also suspecting that it is a dead-end street. It's the media's cause; not necessarily NASA's.