Weird enough I have a piece of a meteorite that my father got in Montana when he was visiting in the early 1950's it crashed nearby and he and my cousins out there kept the bigger chunks. It looks cool all scorched with smooth spots where it melted when hot and a little sparkly from the iron in it.......

Maybe I'll try that........hmmmmmmmm

I goot a Sheeep. Help me push it thrrrrough the fence.

i was also wondering about this. good question.

My College level English literature books have typos in it, so i expect a table top board game to follow suit.. after all its the English way!

The game has tons of typos. This just isn't one of them.

People are people we all make mistakes........that's why errata was created.

Scottish mangling?

There was no such thing as standardized spelling in English until well after Shakespeare. Famously, Shakespeare signed his name with three different spellings. It didn't matter! There was no possibility of "mangling" a spelling before that, other than actually using letters that didn't make the right sounds.

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Er, I hate to break this to you, but real meteorites never look scorched (unless they happen to land in a fire or something) and don't really look melted either.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meteorite

Just out of curiosity, does "glammer" even mean anything? Hard to say it's a typo and should be glammer when I don't think glammer is a word.

He'd obviously been drinking whiskey.

It means more glam.

Like, these kicky boots are glam, but David Bowie is glammer.

I agree accept this hit in brush broke up and started a fire which they put out so a little scorched ...yes - smooth in places... yes - right in front of me ..yes. I would be more than happy to compare with your piece..

Didn't know I had to go into extended details....

It wouldn't start a fire. Meteorites hit cold.

Meteor material doesn't transfer heat very well. The glowing light you see as the rock falls through the atmosphere is the bow-shock, the air compressed in front of the falling object. THAT is hot, but the rock is still at deep space temperatures, really cold. As the heat from the bow shock affects the rock, parts of the outside are *instantly obliterated*. They aren't melted, it's too hot for that, they're just reduced to gas and blown off. Nothing that gets heated stays on the rock long enough to transfer much heat to the rest of the rock. The material remains cold!

Eventually, the meteorite slows to the point where the bowshock is no longer hot enough to glow or do any damage. By the time it hits the ground, it has slowed down to terminal velocity and isn't heating from friction much at all.

There aren't many statistics on recently fallen meteorites, but the American Meteor Society FAQ suggests few are more than ambient temperature when they hit the ground, and we know for a fact that some meteorites were so cold when they hit that they formed frost immediately after impact!

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/faqf.html

There are many reports of meteors "sizzling" or "starting fires on impact", but they all seem to be exaggerations from people who are disappointed that reality doesn't live up to their fiery expectations.

I'm going to travel around America squirting napalm on freshly downed meteorites.

Yeah, I was wondering that. The only meaning I can think of is, yes, in a Bowie context. Bowie is at least 700% glammer than me. And I'm moderately glam.

Ah you crazy kids and your facts.......this piece that I have is about 10 in. long x 7 in wide and that's a shard of it. They said it sounded like a mortar shell hitting the ground..he was there I wasn't(as I wasn't born yet), and that's how I heard the story of it.........so enjoy your facts... I'll enjoy the story and my meteorite.....


So it was you(probably not), or your father or grand father that did it...

The fourth of July must be fun at your house.....napalm and all

When's the B-B-Que