Boorx4 Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Greetings All, Did anyone happen to catch last Sunday's ABC mini-movie called Impact? I tuned in at about 40 minutes into it. A different twist to the two previous asteroid impact movies. Anyway, I just switched channels while a commercial ran on the channel I was watching. At this point in the movie, a scientist was standing in a 10 foot crater and about to pick up a meteorite about the size of a grapefruit. He couldn't move it. He asked his associate to get his rock hammer. The associate got the hammer out of the truck and the hammer flew to the magnetic meteorite. This instantly grabbed my attention and I stayed with the movie. The final 2 hours are to air tomorrow, this Sunday. Science fiction, but hey, at least it about a subject that we love. Keep on a hunting, Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rioscience Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Yes, I did. The topic captured my attention as well. I believe they said the meteorite was a fragment of a brown dwarf that is super dense and highly magnetic. A larger chunk lodged itself into the moon making the moon like 300,000 times as dense. Pretty funny how expert scientist keeps correcting everyone who calls the chunk of rock a meteor .NO, it is a meteorite once it hits Earth. It's keeping me entertained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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