Meteorite hits fan at cricket match

[ChapManiA]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorite-hits-fan-cricket-match.html

A meteorite fell out of the sky on Saturday whilst cricket fans were watching Monty and Lukey Wright Wright Wright bat.

I did a forum search, I hope this isn't fixtures.

 

[Mendoza]

that looks like something that would have a street value of a few thousand quid

 

[Tricky Dicky]

that looks like something that would have a street value of a few thousand quid

Are you sure it's not out of the "how many dumps a day" thread

 

[Biscuit]

Are you sure it's not out of the "how many dumps a day" thread

Owz that?

Not a 'Carbon deposit' from a plane at all?

Some of the comments on that site suggest it'd be white hot for the next week if it were a real lunar lump and that the human eye would not have seen it travelling to earth!

 

[eastlondonseagull]

that looks like something that would have a street value of a few thousand quid

Totally. Can smell it from here.

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[Dick Knights Mumm]

It was made of best stewing steak.


It was meaty alright.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Owz that?

Not a 'Carbon deposit' from a plane at all?

Some of the comments on that site suggest it'd be white hot for the next week if it were a real lunar lump and that the human eye would not have seen it travelling to earth!

The term "blue ice" comes to mind.

 

[Brian]

Why did it break in two? Its just travelled through the earths atmosphere and beyond. Why's it got a flat edge?

PS - is it really CKR

 

[ali jenkins]

This was in the Argus AGES ago!

 

[The screamer]

And this is why i don't like Cricket

This has Actually made my day, it shouldn't be funny but its hallrious!

Meteorite hits fan at cricket match - Yahoo! Eurosport

Two cricket fans' enjoyment of a county cricket match was interrupted when a meteorite sailed towards the boundary ropes, hitting one man in the chest.

Jan Marszel, 51, and Richard Haynes, 52, were watching Sussex players Luke Wright and Monty Panesar bat when a black object soared towards them.

The rock, five inches in length and thought to be up to 4.5 billion years old, crashed into the ground and broke in two just in front of their seats square of the wicket.

Mr Marszel, an IT consultant, told the Daily Telegraph: “We were sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden, out of a blue sky, we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us.

“It landed five yards inside the boundary and split into two pieces.

“One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board.

“It came across at quite a speed - if it had hit me full on it could have been very interesting."

Meteorite strikes are extremely rare, but Mr Haynes remains convinced the object that is now back at his home is indeed a lump of rock from outer space.

Mr Haynes, said: “We were quietly supping our pints, both looked up at the same time and saw a black object coming towards us - we didn’t know what it was.

“If it had come from the other direction we might have suspected someone had thrown it, but we saw it come in straight over the ground from quite a way out - it was definitely a meteorite.”

Dr Matthew Genge, a meteorite expert at Imperial College, London, said: “If this turns out to be a meteorite it’s very exciting and would be the first fall in the UK since 1992.

"Potentially it contains secrets as to the formation of our solar system."
Eurosport

 

[Djmiles]

Meteorite hits fan at cricket match - North Stand Chat

6 threads below yours.

 

[Badger]

Do you like clever dicks that say "Fixtures" ?

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?t=179955

 

[The screamer]

My bad

thread over

 

[Juan Albion]

Not only fixtures, but OLD.

 

[John Bumlick]

 

[Storer68]

Are you sure that's not just a large slice of chocolate cake. Quite common at cricket matches around tea time!

 

[Johnny Fever]

Since when were meteors made of chocolate cake ?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

The mystery surrounding an apparent “meteorite” that fell to earth, almost hitting a cricket spectator, has finally been solved by space experts.

Jan Marszal, from Blackboys, near Uckfield, thought he had struck gold when a fiveinch piece of black rock landed near to where he and his friend Richard Haynes were watching Sussex play Middlesex at Uxbridge.

The rock landed inside the boundary rope, split into two pieces, popped up and hit him in the chest.

He was so convinced it was a piece of space rock that he immediately sent it away for expert analysis.

But last night Dave Harris, 51, co-founder of the British and Irish Meteorite Society, said: “I’m afraid it’s nothing more than a piece of Portland cement with flecks of brick dust and flint in it.

“It is most probably something that fell off the undercarriage of a plane. It was not like a meteorite at all.”

The sample was also sent to renowned planetary scientist Professor Colin Pillinger who led the Beagle Mars lander project in 2003.

He also agreed the rock was not a meteorite.

Mr Marszal, 51, an IT consultant, said: “I had never seen a meteorite before so didn’t know what one looked like – but it came down from the sky and I couldn’t think what else it could have been.

“I am disappointed but in some ways I glad it’s all over and we now know what it is.”

Since it first appeared in The Argus on Saturday the meteorite story has been picked up by newspapers, radio stations and television networks across the world.

Mr Marszal even received a surprise call from excited astrology expert Sir Patrick Moore.

Sir Patrick, 87, of West Street, Selsey, near Chichester, said: “I would be surprised if it was a meteorite but it’s difficult to tell one from an ordinary piece of rock.”

 

[sydney]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/26072010/58/meteorite-hits-fan-cricket-match.html

A meteorite fell out of the sky on Saturday whilst cricket fans were watching Monty and Lukey Wright Wright Wright bat.

I did a forum search, I hope this isn't fixtures.

looks like a pound of paki black to me......

 

[Giraffe]

I reckon a bird picked it up thinking it was bread and dropped it.