Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe by Mark Voit

Author:Mark Voit
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Tags: Science
ISBN: 9780810929234
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2000-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Until then, we don't have too many options. Maybe we can divert the big one when the time comes, but for now all we can do is imagine what an impact might be like. Unfortunately, movies have had their own impact. Anytime an unexplained phenomenon involves something falling from the sky, meteors are usually blamed.

Which brings us back to the Ayoubs, still searching for a meteorite in their backyard in Salisbury, New Hampshire. Initially, this night visitor sure did sound like the usual description of a meteorite. But my knowledge of their behavior was telling me otherwise. As I said, meteorites won't cause fires unless they are very big. But other things didn't add up, either. The path was described as an arc, while a meteor's trajectory would have been straight down. Also, no meteorite was ever found, despite a dedicated search. I mentioned to the property owner that meteorites can be sold for quite a bit of money, so he had strong incentive to find it. I never heard of anyone finding anything.

In the end, these events usually have some mundane, terrestrial cause. I would bet money that it was someone setting off fireworks in the thick woods near the Ayoubs' house. This is a guess on my part, and it may be wrong. We may never know what started those fires, but we know what it wasn't. We can blame Hollywood for our mistaken understanding of meteorites, but we can't blame everything else on the poor things themselves.

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