Diceman
December 11, 1999, 3:00pm
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This appeared on Excite’s odd news section today:
Alien ‘Golf’ Shot Pretty Dam Forceful
Updated 7:55 AM ET December 10, 1999
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Even for an alien it was a poor shot – an intergalactic out of bounds in the water, irretrievably embedded in the earth, for a one stroke penalty.
The mysterious object which slammed into an Australian dam, leaving a large crater and attracting nationwide attention, has turned out to be a meteorite – but only the size of a golf ball.
Police divers on Friday recovered sediment and fragments from the dam at Guyra, 250 miles north of Sydney, which geologists believe came from a “golf-ball” size meteorite which landed sometime between Monday and Wednesday.
Despite its small size, the force of the impact left a 50-foot-long and 20-foot-wide crater in the dam, and the meteorite penetrated the bottom of the dam.
“The meteorite has penetrated the mud at the bottom of the dam and is now embedded about 13 feet into granite and unable to be removed,” said a police spokeswoman.
Anyone else hear about this?
“I had a feeling that in Hell there would be mushrooms.” -The Secret of Monkey Island
jab1
December 12, 1999, 12:56am
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God: So that’s where it went. Been lookin’ for that all damn day. Meant to hit Falwell…
Seriously, though, that’s pretty cool. And, no, this is the first I’ve heard of it.
>< DARWIN >L___L
Maybe he should have used a 4 iron?
ke=mv2. Amen, hallelujah.
Yeah, I heard about this one on the CNN.COM site. Pretty cool that it hit something verry big and verry solid so they can figure out it’s exact ballistics.
Sylence
December 13, 1999, 2:23am
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That should be K = [SUP]1[/SUP]/[SUB]2[/SUB]mv[SUP]2[/SUP].
I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one.
