to know that the Nubian desert is very hot - that's why the carbon appears cooked - because it has been !!!

Speaking of hot....

Classic boffin hair style there. :)

I think I have just found the name for an allmighty Metal band

So that's about 46 Brontosauruses long then is it?

Use the correct measurements please.

Paris because the meteorites would have been Hot! Hot! Hot!

Of course it was, all the pieces of Alderaan left after the Death Star's attack would have been superheated

What are they driving? Dodge Rams?

How pray tell would one mitigate the effects of a mountian sized lump of rock hitting the earth??

rocklobster?

Goes well with melted butter and lemon..

A community of professionals and amateurs band together, and then, where the world thinks only mayhem and 'less advanced' third-world conditions exist, local scientists and students take on finding the last piece of the event. I presume the internet played its part...

This is the world I want to live in, one where we are all engaged in reality, marveling at it, studying it, joining hands around the globe to share and help each other in our quest to know more.

Very well said! We need more of this sort of collaboration, and fewer politicians trying to drive us apart.

@whiff:

By making it miss.

... We should welcome our alien overlords.

Why, you jump in the air just as it hits of course!

Well, they could be!

> Why, you jump in the air just as it hits of course!

And then watch in amazement as the Earth rises at supersonic velocity to Just Slam Yo' Ass... For the life of me, I for one do have a remarkably challenging time thinking of exactly what any UN commission might ever do to substantively mitigate any such cosmic event's inevitable local consequences, whether immediate or long term.

Anyone from the UN reading this? Earth to Commission Control... We have a question... Y'got'cher ears on?

Coat. Mine's the one with the 2-meter handheld in one pocket, and the Citizens' Band rig with the gooset-up final amp in the other... One of those Mountainous Things hits or even grazes our watery blue-green unfashionable and Mostly Harmless planet, though, there's really no point to either, I think.

It's a ride until it's over. Then it's still a ride. Maybe with a joke in between...

Your prodigal use of scientific terms nonwithstanding, any 1st-level mage would immediately recognize this piece of rock for what it is : starmetal. Now, could somebody please make a +5 sword out of it ?

Don't worry (I know you all were) - I'm that bored that I've worked it out myself... There are 1,712 Heathrows in a Wales. So it was about 58 microWales in size.

Is it nearly pub time...?

Good thing the rock came from the North otherwise it would not have been spotted. Australia's idiot Howard government, now evicted thankfully, closed down the watch from the South. Kevin Rudd restore the watch!