Fireball crashes through roof of Henry County home

[jeff of pa]

Scientists confirmed that it was a bolide, which is a large and rare fireball that creates a sonic boom.

Why Can't I Be that Lucky !
I'd be a Multi-millionaire By the Time They Left My Home with it !!!!


The Insurance Co. Willl probably Claim its value for Fixing Holes in the Home

 

[Red-Coat]

The bolide occurred during the known period of the Boötid meteor shower which occurs every year between 22nd June and 2nd July, peaking around 27th June. It’s the result of Earth crossing the debris trail of Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke, a short-period comet which orbits the Sun about every 6.32 years. As meteors go, they’re relatively slow-moving, with an atmospheric entry speed of about 14 km/s and only rarely large enough for anything to reach the ground. The comet itself is around 5.2 km in diameter and its debris trail generally chondritic in nature.

In most years the showers are weak but, this year, at least one incoming meteoroid survived atmospheric entry and pieces of it (not the fireball itself) hit a home in Henry County, Georgia, with one fragment penetrating the roof and making a golf-ball-sized hole in the ceiling before cracking the laminate flooring.

 

[ToddsPoint]

The bolide occurred during the known period of the Boötid meteor shower which occurs every year between 22nd June and 2nd July, peaking around 27th June. It’s the result of Earth crossing the debris trail of Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke, a short-period comet which orbits the Sun about every 6.32 years. As meteors go, they’re relatively slow-moving, with an atmospheric entry speed of about 14 km/s and only rarely large enough for anything to reach the ground. The comet itself is around 5.2 km in diameter and its debris trail generally chondritic in nature.

In most years the showers are weak but, this year, at least one incoming meteoroid survived atmospheric entry and pieces of it (not the fireball itself) hit a home in Henry County, Georgia, with one fragment penetrating the roof and making a golf-ball-sized hole in the ceiling before cracking the laminate flooring.

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Are those fragments found at that house worth anything? Hopefully the homeowners will make something for their damage.

 

[Red-Coat]

Are those fragments found at that house worth anything? Hopefully the homeowners will make something for their damage.

Yes, they sure are. Meteorites which have hit something apart from the ground itself (known in the collector market as "hammers") are substantially more valuable than other falls, even if small. Collectors would also be interested in things like broken pieces of roof tiles and the laminate flooring said to have been damaged. The hole in the ceiling particularly will have a substantial value. I hope the home-owner has been advised that he should carefully cut out that section of plaster-work and remove it with the hole intact.