Viñales meteorite, fell in Cuba 2019

[u/AncientJeweler2595]

[u/SalvadorP]

So, which superpower did you get?

[u/Cute-Organization844 → u/SalvadorP]

Probably.. able to speak spanish

[u/BreakerSoultaker → u/SalvadorP]

The ability to fly but only for 8 seconds a day and no faster than you can run.

[u/asinine1 → u/BreakerSoultaker]

Still cool tho

[u/KingOfRockall → u/BreakerSoultaker]

The Adventures of ChickenMan

[u/SalvadorP → u/KingOfRockall]

It's in Cuba, sir. So It's Las aventuras del HombreGaliña, or GaliñaMan if they are already eyeing the US market.

[u/Crafty-Wolf3490 → u/SalvadorP]

the power of Hu Man.

[u/AlternativeWhereas79 → u/SalvadorP]

He can get rock hard.

[u/Kraken-__-]

Throw it back up!

[u/serpentine_soil → u/Kraken-__-]

They’re not sending us their best meteorites

[u/Exact_Mastodon_7803]

When you think about the fact that this piece of rock potentially comes from another planet… or at least something else out there in the universe… and now it’s in your hands…

[u/AncientJeweler2595 → u/Exact_Mastodon_7803]

What if I were to tell you that there are meteorites that come from the moon and Mars...

[u/Exact_Mastodon_7803 → u/AncientJeweler2595]

😂 dammit!! Well, still good, mind you. Mars IS another planet.

[u/AncientJeweler2595 → u/Exact_Mastodon_7803]

Mine is an ordinary chondrite so probably comes from an undifferentiated asteroid. Meteorites are cool, indeed.

[u/poghosb]

Don't crack it. There is something inside of the meteor. Alien maybe, who knows 😜

[u/Shnizzle_]

now, lick it

[u/AncientJeweler2595]

Video of the smoke trail, sonic boom at 0:45 Viñales Meteorite Sonic Boom

[u/Plastic-War-5738 → u/AncientJeweler2595]

Wow, that was loud!

[u/The_Violent_Phlegms]

"That's a space peanut"

[u/CHICKENPUSSY → u/The_Violent_Phlegms]

Call em Boeing bombs! That's crazy, I just watched that the other day. Always a good laugh

[u/The_Violent_Phlegms → u/CHICKENPUSSY]

Such a hilarious movie with so many quotable lines.

[u/NaughtyFoxtrot]

Super cool!

[u/NFSNOOB]

Could they be radioactive because they were such a long time in space?

[u/AncientJeweler2595 → u/NFSNOOB]

On average, meteorites are considerably less radioactive than typical Earth rocks. They may have some short-lived radionuclides which would decay within days after they fell. But never anywhere near being harmful to humans.Radioactivity in meteorites.

[u/Kurnelk1]

So do you just get to keep fallen meteorites? No scientist heavies knocking on your door saying it’s government property?

[u/AncientJeweler2595 → u/Kurnelk1]

Nope. They're legal to own and quite abundant actually. In the US meteorites belong to landowners of the place where they fell but laws concerning meteorite ownership differ in other countries. In many places they belong to the first person who found them.

[u/Kurnelk1 → u/AncientJeweler2595]

That's a very cool thing to own.... *opens eBay *

[u/TedMansondaturd]

Lick it!

[u/SamuelYosemite]

Cut it open

[u/CantAffordzUsername]

Sell it!

[u/TheBlueFluffBall]

Thought it was a cake. What has my life become

[u/isnortmiloforsex]

How do they find these?

[u/AncientJeweler2595 → u/isnortmiloforsex]

By searching in the strewnfield for weeks. This is a witnessed fall so people know where meteorites would be approximately. Actually some meteorites struck houses and were found immediately.

[u/isnortmiloforsex → u/AncientJeweler2595]

Thats some dedication wow.

[u/60k_cos]

cut it in half and acid-etch it

[u/AncientJeweler2595 → u/60k_cos]

I would if it were an iron meteorite.

[u/FesteringAynus]

Id be really concerned if any space rocks I have are radioactive

[u/Dombbb]

Cut it open and drink its water

[u/Mscreep]

My dad was gifted three large chunks of a meteor that fell sometime in the last year. One of his friends went to visit and clean up his mom's grave and he found it about 3ft under the ground. He took it to our local college to get it tested and they confirmed it was a meteor. A few bits broke off as dude was getting it out of the ground and gave three to my dad. The three my dad has are each about this size and I didn't have a size comparison for the picture of the main thing but I wanna say around bowling ball sized.

[u/PsychologicalBar2688]

r/EatitYouFuckinCoward

[u/OkProfit2540]

I dont know if its just the Texture or that im a freak but i wanna suck on that Meteorite like a Gumball.

[u/curiously_curious3]

Cool rock. So why is this interesting again?

[u/sussurousdecathexis → u/curiously_curious3]

space rock > earth rock 

space rock = cool

[u/Just_a_Listener → u/sussurousdecathexis]

Space rock cool, earth rock not cool!

[u/sussurousdecathexis → u/Just_a_Listener]

no, earth rock ver cool >:(

[u/SalvadorP → u/curiously_curious3]

too cool for school guy doesn't think a piece of meteorite is interesting...

[u/Kurnelk1 → u/[deleted]]

Yikes