Comments on: Melting meteorite makes massive mark?

By: Kurt

Kurt — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:49:02 +0000

Hey maybe it’s the messenger spacecraft! After all Wikipedia said that messenger was around Canada.

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:20:35 +0000

Skiing over it with a magnetometer should find anything with iron it in- including golf clubs.

By: Sue Mitchell

Sue Mitchell — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:24:25 +0000

Phil said: “I’m thinking it would have to have been a fair-sized chunk of iron to make that big a hole.”

As it was on a golf course, maybe it was a 5-iron, no…? –

By: Kurt Hollocher

Kurt Hollocher — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:36:07 +0000

The size and shape of the hole is characteristic of melting caused by spring water rising from the pond bottom. Spring water, coming from meters under the surface, typically has the average annual local temperature. It rises in a plume through the colder, denser pond water and melts the ice from below. The fresh snow, apparent in the photo, insulates the ice and aids melting. Just about any frozen shallow pond or lake will have some of these at least sometimes during the winter.

By: Barton Paul Levenson

Barton Paul Levenson — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:51:57 +0000

Francis Wayland Thurston posts: [[Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!]] Well, if Cthulhu acts now, I can set him up with a cable and high-speed internet and internet phone service for only $99.00 a month! Additional channels are extra.

By: Rational Zen

Rational Zen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:22:55 +0000

If the hole resembles the Virgin Mother then I’ll go after it. I’ve got my own scuba gear, don’t need the freebie

By: Francis Wayland Thurston

Francis Wayland Thurston — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:13:21 +0000

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!