>>1348029apparently they aren't ackchully hot when they land, the reason being they are ice cold and moving so fast that the intense heat is only skin-deep and sheds off outside very quickly as it falls. this is what i heard as a common "myth". parently it'll be room temperature or stikk cold if you get to it right away.
one winter night when I was a kid we were looking up at the clear night sky and saw a meteorite fall and land somewhere in the woods behind the house, with a big white/blue flash. we went out and spent an hour trying to locate it but no luck. it eventually occurred to us that we had little sense of how close or far away it could have been, seeing that it was so fast and it was hard to have any sense of distance. could have been a quarter mile of 5 miles desu.
