megacryometeors

Ice "meteor" nearly killed our kids
TEACHERS and pupils at a Birmingham school will this week be analysing fragments of "meteor" ice which crashed into a playing field, narrowly missing stunned pupils.

It ploughed into the field at Yardleys Secondary School, in Tyseley, yesterday.

Megacryometeors: The phenomenon of abnormally large chunks of ice falling from a clear sky is giving rise to an interesting debate. Are they real? Are they from God? Are they a consequence of 'Global Warming'?

A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice, which, despite sharing many textural, hydro-chemical and isotopic features detected in large hailstones, are formed under unusual atmospheric conditions which clearly differ from those of the cumulonimbus clouds scenario (i.e. clear-sky conditions). They are sometimes called huge hailstones, but do not need to form in thunderstorms. Jesus Martinez-Frias, a planetary geologist of the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid pioneered research on megacryometeors in January 2000, after ice chunks weighing up to 6.6 pounds rained on Spain out of cloudless skies for 10 days.

There are things you expect might happen to you in your lifetime and then there are things you don't.

For a family in Gastonia early Monday morning, it was the latter.

They were awakened by a loud noise and what they saw has left them in shock.

Kristen Miranda joins us now live near the airport to explain what happened to this family.

It seems as though this strange story actually begins, or possibly ends at the airport.

You have heard those stories about "stuff" falling from airplanes to the ground. It seems that the proof of this happened to fall from the sky in Gastonia at about 6:15 Monday morning.

An icy object fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of an Arlington Heights business this morning.

Around 3 a.m., several clear, frozen objects hit the manufacturing plant of Weber Marking Systems on Algonquin Road.

The icy items came through the roof of the plant where production was not under way, according to Chief Executive Officer Glenn Gilly. Although employees were there, none were near the area or were injured, he said.

26 February 2008
A massive lump of ice falling from the sky and landing at your feet is not what you would expect on a lovely sunny day, but unusual events like these have been known to happen. It has been speculated whether they could be giant hailstones or maybe ice from aircraft, but a team of Spanish scientists has found that the answer actually lies within complex natural processes in the atmosphere.

By David Unze • May 8, 2008

A Baldwin Township resident had an unusual guest break in while the homeowner was away last month.

It came in through the roof, leaving a 3-foot hole, before crashing through the house’s main floor and landing in the basement.

By the time Sherburne County sheriff’s officials got a call from a neighbor, the intruder had already begun to melt into a puddle on the basement floor.