I'm not sure, TBH. In my case it was a double-glazed window[1], so the chip just fell into the space between the panes. Anything which pecks the glass with enough force to knock a chip out like that is probably capable of sending it a fair distance though, I suppose.
[1] And in the spring, when I suspect they're more territorial; perhaps it's something that just wouldn't happen at this time of year.cheers
Jules
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That made my mates place look tidy :-)
Is it Christmas already? Brian
I think he might have heard a hand grenade, unless it was a noise abatement one.
Brian
Perhaps its a masked aerial installer, tomorrow you will find a wire through it and silicone sealant around the hole!
Brian
Probably doesn't live in Manchester ..
You didn't stick your finger in the woodpecker's hole, did you?
So how did the flake of glass get inside? The phot0 of the flake also looks curved. Does it fit back into the hole neatly?
That's big...
I've had a smaller version with one of my windows. There was a tiny (almost pinprick) hole on the outside of the glass, but on the inside it was around 3/4" diameter. I reckoned it was an airgun pellet, and it had bounced off.
Did you or your neighbours do any lawn mowing or striming yesterday? At the office, we had the gardners take out a full room height double glazed unit with a stone (toughened glass). Went with one hell of a bang. Only took out the outside pane though.
Looks like a classic stone chip to me.
Don't look like any of the holes I made as a youngster with my trusty .177 and .22 rifles.
Prolly one of they meteors the other nite ;)....
That I'm inlined to agree with.
A tiny/small meteorite, by the time it gets to ground level, has slowed to it's terminal velocity. Still quite quick and 4" dia lump of rock or iron will crash through a roof no problem and still be quite hot so a possible fire risk.
It's only the really big ones that slam into the earth at high speed and make craters. I'm a bit miffed they didn't tell us that that one was coming in, I guess they didn't see it coming... they quite often only spot quite substantial asteroids *after* closest approach. I'd have expected NORAD or who ever to have said by now if it was a bit of man made space junk.
It's not melted, nor is it mysterious, it's what happens when an object harder than glass hits it at speed, IE, someone's hurled a pebble through your window.
...except, if I'm not mistaken (and I usually am mistaken) that's a north-facing window.
Nick
except it was not meteorites "Experts said the sightings could be satellite debris?
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Kid with catapult? Air rifle dings are usually smaller.
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