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	Megacryometeor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice, which, despite sharing many textural, hydrochemical 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.
		More than 50 megacryometeors have been recorded since the year 2000.
		Analysis of megacryometeors show that their composition matches normal rainwater for the areas in which they fell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megacryometeor (295 words)

	Are falling ice balls a product of global warming? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During the past three years, however, they've accumulated strong evidence that megacryometeors are falling all around the globe.
		Knight has reviewed scientific papers on megacryometeors, and thinks the explanation that cites unusual atmospheric conditions possibly linked to global warming, is probably wrong, although he doesn't have a better one.
		He has linked megacryometeor events to unusual conditions in the "tropopause," the boundary between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere) and the stratosphere.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/03344/249503.stm (681 words)

	Megacryometeor Hits Sebring Home - from Highlands Today and TBO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		SEBRING — A Sebring man said Tuesday that he was glad he was sleeping in a different bed when a chunk of ice known as a megacryometeor crashed through his bedroom window, showering the unoccupied bed with broken glass.
		Like a scene from the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” when large hail bombarded Japan, Cecil Blackwell, 79, living in the 3000 block of Simka St., said he was awakened by the football shaped ice ball crashing onto his bedroom floor at about 1:30 a.m.
		Heads, however, have very nearly been cracked by megacryometeors, a term coined from ‘mega,’ which means ‘big,’ ‘cryo’ for ‘ice’ and ‘meteor,’ the extraterrestrial debris that streaks through the atmosphere.
	www.highlandstoday.com /MGBMCNKOC1E.html (563 words)

	Word Spy - megacryometeor
		Megacryometeors are large chunks or blocks of ice that sail through the atmosphere, often clunking down on the surface.
		Your typical megacryometeor weighs in at roughly 25 to 35 pounds, and there have been reports of a 440-pound chunk that landed in Brazil a while back.
		Michael Woods, author of the first example citation, reports that a block of ice described by eyewitnesses as "half the size of a car" punched through the roof of an automobile dealership in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
	www.wordspy.com /words/megacryometeor.asp (469 words)

	Welteislehre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Megacryometeors are simply "ice meteors" that fall from a clear blue sky.
		The first megacryometeor was found in Spain -- by a startled farmer riding his tractor in Soria it was an ice block that weighed 35.27 lbs.
		At first it was thought to be a block left from the toilet of an Airplane but after tests on the mammoth hailstone it was determined that it was composed of rainwater.
	www.clydelewis.com /dis/welteislehre/welteislehre.htm (1865 words)

	[meteorite-list] Scientists Puzzle Over Ice From Sky in New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But they have accumulated evidence that megacryometeors are a global event and have documented ice balls falling from cloudless skies everywhere from China to the United States.
		They could not be debris from a comet as lab tests showed that megacryometeors had the distinctive chemical signature of ice in ordinary terrestrial hailstones.
		One, that megacryometeors are a weird byproduct of global warming; two, that ice crystals in aircraft contrails left floating in the air for days are swept through cold, humid air pockets, forming large balls.
	six.pairlist.net /pipermail/meteorite-list/2004-January/139722.html (794 words)

	12/11/03: Just when you thought the news couldn't get any stranger.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		They are not watching for ordinary ice storms or slick roads, but incidents involving "megacryometeors," great balls of ice that fall out of the clear blue sky -- possibly because of global warming.
		Martinez-Frias 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.
		But lab tests showed that ice in megacryometeors had the distinctive chemical signature of ice in ordinary terrestrial hailstones.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/slingblade/76/3779.html (553 words)

	Megacryometeor
		Megacryometeor A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice, weighing at least 10 kilograms, that are sometimes called huge hailstones, but don't need to form in thunderstorms
		megacryometeor A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice, which, despite sharing many textural, hydrochemical and isotopic features detected in.
		Megacryometeor A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice, weighing at least 10 kg, that are sometimes called huge hailstones, but don't have to form in thunderstorms
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Megacryometeor (293 words)

	Global warming leading to huge ice balls?
		The Spanish-American team is investigating incidents involving ''megacryometeors,'' great balls of ice that fall out of the clear blue sky, possibly because of global warming.
		Martinez-Frias pioneered research on megacryometeors in January 2000, after ice chunks weighing up to 6.6 pounds fell from cloudless skies onto Spain for 10 days.
		Knight said he has reviewed papers published on megacryometeors, and thinks the explanation, which involves atmospheric conditions possibly linked to global warming, is wrong.
	www.illinoiswaters.net /heartland/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=681 (370 words)

	Attack of the Giant Ice Balls! - Frell Me Dead
		If megacryometeors really are big hailstones, the updrafts would have to be extremely strong.
		Since the deluge of megacryometeors that rained on Spain in January 2000, the Martinez-Frias team has studied and followed this phenomenon; and they have found that this phenomenon isn’t unique to Spain.
		Perhaps megacryometeors is the work of a master prankster; perhaps it’s the byproduct of global warming.
	www.watchfarscape.com /forums/showthread.php?t=21897 (811 words)

	Megacryometeor - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice, weighing at least 10 kg, that are sometimes called huge hailstones, but don't need to form in thunderstorms.
		The difference between a megacryometeor and a hailstone is not clearly defined, mostly because the process that creates megacryometeors is not fully understood, but they have been recorded falling out of a clear sky on a hot summer day.
		They are also not made from air-plane toilets or exhaust streams.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Megacryometeor (253 words)

	Ice Meteors
		A Spanish scientist says terrorists may be to blame for giant blocks of ice which fall from clear skies and rip gaping holes in cars and houses.
		Jesus Martinez-Frias has spent the last two-and-a-half years investigating so-called megacryometeors (ice meteors), which tend to weigh more than 22 lb and have been known to leave five feet holes in houses.
		The first megacryometeor was found this year in Spain by a startled farmer riding his tractor in Soria.
	newtonbigelow.com /Icemeteors.html (381 words)

	Global Lithuanian Net. Ice chunks at Spain. UFO Page. Lithuania.
		Megacryometeors tend to weigh more than 22 pounds and could leave 5-foot holes in houses.
		Their centers then fall, bouncing and gathering mass to smash a car windshields or land softly in a field.
		The first megacryometeor in 2002 was found by startled farmer riding his tractor in Soria weighed 35.27 pounds.
	www.nso.lt /cosmos/ices.htm (765 words)

	The Case of the Spanish Icefall
		First, it was discovered that no aircraft flyovers corresponded to all the megacryometeor appearances.
		The ice balls were found to contain air bubbles, layering, ammonia, silica and specific isotopes – all of which were characteristic of hailstones matching the composition of rainwater.
		Since there were limited nuclei, there were few megacryometeors that formed and fell over Spain in January of 2000.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /scientia/icefall.htm (1118 words)

	hailstones, chunks of ice, blocks of ice, megacryometeors, aerolito
		Fall of block of ice of around 3 feet wide and 4 inches thick in Fontana (USA), 13 August 2005.Possible megacryometeor.
		Sunday to find their living room damaged, a block of ice the size of a fist on the floor and a 50-cm hole in the roof.Possible megacryometeor.
		It appears to be that it is not a megacryometeor.
	tierra.rediris.es /bloquesdehielo/novedades2.html (1095 words)

	Steve Quayle News Alerts
		MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish scientist says global warming may be to blame for giant blocks of ice which fall from clear skies and rip gaping holes in cars and houses.
		Their centers then fall through the atmosphere, bouncing and gathering mass, to end up smashing through a car windshield or, more usually, landing softly in a field, he suggested.
		The first megacryometeor found this year in Spain -- by a startled farmer riding his tractor in Soria -- weighed 35.27 lb.
	stevequayle.com /News.alert/Earth_Changes/021001.ice.meteors.sign.html (469 words)

	Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
		They call the giant blocks of ice that fall from the sky "megacryometeors." In the Toledo Blade, Michael Woods quotes astrobiologist Jesus Martinez-Frias as saying, "I'm not worried that a block of ice may fall on your head.
		Most of the megacryometeors that have been found weigh 25 to 35 pounds, but one found in Brazil weighed 440 pounds.
		Atmospheric researcher David Travis says, "If megacryometeor formation is linked to global warming, as we suspect, then it is fair to assume that these events may increase in the futureI am anxiously waiting to see what will happen this winter.
	www.unknowncountry.com /news?id=3399 (378 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A government scientific research agency thought the ice might be extraterrestrial, from a comet, and asked him to investigate.
		But they've accumulated strong evidence that megacryometeors are a global event, Travis said.
		Knight said he has reviewed scientific papers published on megacryometeors, and thinks the explanation, which involves unusual atmospheric conditions possibly linked to global warming, is wrong.
	www.knoxstudio.com /shns/story.cfm?pk=ICEBALLS-12-10-03&cat=II (678 words)

	Planet Ark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jesus Martinez-Frias has spent the last two-and-a-half years investigating so-called megacryometeors - ice meteors - which tend to weigh more than 10 kg (22 lb) and have been known to leave 1.5 metre-wide (five feet) holes in houses.
		Their centres then fall through the atmosphere, bouncing and gathering mass, to end up smashing through a car windscreen or, more usually, landing softly in a field, he suggested.
		The first megacryometeor found this year in Spain - by a startled farmer riding his tractor in Soria - weighed 16 kg (35.27 lb).
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=17974 (500 words)

	hailstones, megacryometeors, chunks of ice, blocks of ice, aerolitos
		Megacryometeors are not the classical big hailstones, ice from aircrafts (waste water or tank leakage), nor the simple result of icing processes at high altitudes.
		We suggest one monitor these megacryometeor events because they can not only be a potential natural hazard for people, aviation, etc, but perhaps they are also signals of more serious environmental problems.
		A huge hailstone (megacryometeor ?) left a hole the size of a football in a plane
	tierra.rediris.es /bloquesdehielo/index2.html (349 words)

	FarShores News story: Spanish Scientist Links Ice Falls To Climate Change
		MADRID: A Spanish scientist says global warming may be to blame for giant blocks of ice which fall from clear skies and rip gaping holes in cars and houses.
		Jesus Martinez-Frias has spent the last two-and-a-half years investigating so-called megacryometeors -- ice meteors -- which tend to weigh more than 10 kg (22 lb) and have been known to leave 1.5 metre-wide (five feet) holes in houses.
		The first megacryometeor found this year in Spain -- by a startled farmer riding his tractor in Soria -- weighed 16 kg (35.27 lb).
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/n02ibloc.htm (517 words)

	Hail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The largest hailstone fell in Aurora, Nebraska on June 22, 2003 with a radius of 17.8 cm (7 in.), but its mass was less than that of the Coffeyville stone, possibly because a piece broke off when it hit a house.
		Other, much larger, ice precipitation occur and are called megacryometeor/s.
		The Labour party today moved to distance Gordon Brown from the shock byelection defeat in Dunfermline, with the Scottish secretary, Alastair Darling, saying he alone took "full responsibility".
	www.infothis.com /find/Hail (754 words)

	Megacryometeor: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice (Water frozen in the solid state)
		More than 50 megacryometeors have been recorded since the year 2000, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		The difference between a megacryometeor and a hailstone is not clearly defined, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/megacryometeor (846 words)

	10 kg Ice Blocks From the Sky
		A Spanish scientist says global warming may be to blame for giant blocks of ice which fall from clear skies and rip gaping holes in cars and houses.
		THE ICE BLOCKS tend to weigh more than 22 pounds (10 kilograms) and have been known to leave 5-foot (1.5-meter) holes in houses.
		The first megacryometeor found this year in Spain — by a startled farmer riding his tractor in Soria — weighed 35.27 pounds (16 kilograms).
	www.you.com.au /news/1283.htm (468 words)

	sciforums.com - Block of Ice Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This quite serious page (from a Spanish scientist connected with NASA) says this thing has been going on since Biblical times.
		They blame the last increase in occurrences to the increasing commercial flights — I didn’t know stewardesses in 747s throw out the leftover ice from cocktails in First Class.
		08-13-04, 12:31 AM Now that we know its really megacryometeors, it must be the first kind of "precipitation" to come from not a cloud, and from a clear sky.
	www.sciforums.com /archive/index.php/t-38408 (2064 words)

	Auckland's ice missile yields clues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When a ball of ice crashed through Auckland woman Jan Robertson's house, the 80-year-old had no idea she would plunge New Zealand into the centre of a scientific frenzy.
		Geochemists, astrophysicists, meteorologists and geologists in Brazil, China, Spain and Russia believe the intrusion may have been New Zealand's first megacryometeor - large hailstone.
		But early investigations by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) suggest that the ice contained chlorine, an indication that it had been treated by man.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/31/1075340877076.html (383 words)

	Megacryometeor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A megacryometeor is a very large chunk of ice, weighing at least 10 kg, that are sometimes called huge hailstones, but don't have toform in thunderstorms.
		They vary in sizebetween 10 kg to over 200 kg.
		Thedifference between a megacryometeor and a hailstone is not clearly defined,mostly because the process that creates megacryometeors is not fully understood, but they have been recorded falling out of aclear sky on a hot summer day.
	www.therfcc.org /megacryometeor-207550.html (146 words)

	Signs of the Times - 2003-12-11
		Some mean old arms manufacturers are bullying a Johnny come-lately that has developed a new bullet that explodes inside a body, ravaging tissue in all directions, "creating untreatable wounds." Mercenaries on the ground in Baghdad have been impressed at the damage it wreaks on Iraqis.
		A dangerous global warming trend identified called megacryometeors, the usual UFO funny business, strange noises bubbling up from the earth in Nigeria frightening residents, fun with cloning, China purchasing a US media outlet, Christian killing explained away, and the polar icecap's days are numbered.
		The U.S. has a long history of fabricating evidence to justify foreign adventures
	signs-of-the-times.org /signs/signs338.htm (14724 words)

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