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It would be neat to find, but--who is going to go scouring the seafloor off the coast of Delaware for a not-very-large magnetic rock?
by sk5t 8y ago
It would be neat to find, but--who is going to go scouring the seafloor off the coast of Delaware for a not-very-large magnetic rock?
- toyg 8y agoWell, we think it’s a rock ... <insert Superman reference here>
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoThere's also probably a bunch of other junk down there to throw false positives. You'll make more selling the scrap metal you haul up than you will selling the meteorite (still won't be a money-maker though).
- ip26 8y agoDepends on whether the DoD believes it was a rock. Delaware is pretty close to D.C.
- elil17 8y agoWe have other ways to determine the nature of a falling object. Much can be assertained from its trajectory, deceleration, and luminance. It’s trivial to determine that this was not a reentry vehicle.
- craftyguy 8y agoExactly. If that was a vehicle/projectile, even watching the dashcam videos of it, it's quite obvious that parts of it underwent rapid, unplanned desintegration. So it likely would't have done anything significant if it was (it was not.)