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Teen gets into fender bender backing out of his own driveway (video)
Teenagers are new to driving, plus they have a lot going on. Combine these two factors together, and you have a 17-year-old who gets into a fender bender right in his driveway.
“I’m blocked in, dude,” the kid complained when he was leaving the house to get some milk. Thirty-seconds later, he accidentally crashed his truck into a small car parked behind him, apparently forgetting it was ever there (see video, caught on security camera, below). The vacant car then took off, cruising into the street on its own, before the kid quickly jumped out of his truck to catch the rogue runaway. Fortunately, according to Ring’s description on their YouTube page, nobody was injured, and his family was later able to laugh it off as a good learning lesson.
[Stop at :30 unless you want to watch Ring’s irritating promotional montage.]
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Mystery surrounds man found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in driveway of vacant Buckhead lot – WSB-TV Channel 2
ATLANTA — Atlanta police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in an affluent Buckhead neighborhood Thursday morning.
Channel 2′s Tom Regan learned that parents who were driving their children to school spotted the victim bleeding in the driveway of a vacant lot and called 911.
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Homicide detectives are still on the scene off Peachtree Battle Avenue, where they are working to determined the identity of the victim, who they said is a man in his mid 40s or 50s.
“We don’t believe he lived in the immediate area,” police said. “He doesn’t seem to be from the neighborhood.”
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Regan spoke with neighbors who were out on a run and shocked to learn about the shooting.
“Kids and families walk through these neighborhoods,” Patrick Lewis said. “It’s just unfortunate that these kinds of things happen.”
Police have not identified the victim but said he in his late 40s or early 50s. Police said they are also working to determine a motive.
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Meteorite that fell on a Cotswolds driveway contains extra-terrestrial water
Extra-terrestrial water has been found in a British meteorite for the first time – and it closely resembles Earth’s oceans, scientists have confirmed.
The Winchcombe meteorite landed on a driveway in Gloucestershire in February last year, and was found so soon after impact that researchers believe it is one of the most pristine ever discovered.
The chunk of space rock came from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, and crucially contains significant amounts of water which match closely to that on Earth, as well as amino acids – important building blocks of life.
Many scientists believe that life began on Earth following bombardment by asteroids or comets containing life-giving ingredients. But most that have been studied contain water that is a different composition to that found on our planet.
The new research shows that the Winchcombe meteorite is comprised of water that is very close to that in Earth’s oceans, suggesting that life was seeded on our planet by meteorite strikes.
Meteorites often contaminated after landing
Dr Ashley King, of the Planetary Materials Group at NHM and the UK Fireball Alliance, told delegates at the British Science Festival in Leicester: “What’s really exciting for us for us is that Winchcombe meteorite was collected about 12 hours after landing, so the water that’s in the rock hasn’t been contaminated with the water that we have in our atmosphere. So it’s basically really fresh.
“We can be really confident when we measure the water that it is extra-terrestrial water. The composition of that water is very very similar to the composition of the water in the Earth’s oceans.
“So it’s a really good piece of evidence that asteroids and bodies like Winchcombe were delivering really important contributions to the Earth’s oceans.
“It’s also got two per cent carbon, and a significant fraction of that is organic materials, like amino acids. If you want to start making DNA and stuff, you need amino acids, so all of these starting materials are locked up in the Winchcombe meteorite.”
Although other meteorites have been found containing water that resembles water on Earth, scientists had never been sure whether they had picked it up while lying around after landing.
Usually meteorites are not found for a long time after they land, leading to contamination.
Dead man dumped in NYC driveway with hand truck
A dead man was found in a Brooklyn driveway Tuesday — dumped there by another guy using a hand truck, police sources said.
The unidentified corpse was found at 931 72nd Street in Dyker Heights around 11:30 a.m., according to police.
Private security footage shows another man pushing the dead person onto the property with a hand truck around 12 hours earlier, police sources said.
There were no obvious signs of trauma, and the medical examiner will determine the cause of death, cops said.
Texas shocked by killing of Muslim motorist who pulled into man’s driveway | Texas
Controversial laws in Texas that can effectively allow homeowners to kill people coming on to their property are to be thrown into the spotlight after the shocking case of a Moroccan man who was shot dead after pulling over in the driveway of a San Antonio-area house, possibly because he was lost.
Adil Dghoughi, 31, was killed earlier this month by the homeowner Terry Turner, who has been charged with murder.
Turner’s lawyers say they will defend their client under the rubric of Texas’s stand-your-ground law and castle doctrine that allows homeowners to use deadly force against someone on their property if theactions are seen as immediately necessary.
Stand-your-ground laws counter the notion that in the event of danger, one must retreat or run away. Rather, a person may “stand their ground” and justifiably defend themselves.
Critics of the laws say they lead to unnecessary deaths and are often a cover for racism. The first stand-your-ground law in the US was enacted in Florida in 2005, with heavy lobbying from the National Rifle Association (NRA). The law came under national scrutiny in the wake of the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch person.
The details of the Texas killing have shocked many.
Dghoughi, a Muslim who immigrated to the US in 2013 and studied finance, had borrowed the Audi of his girlfriend, Sarah Todd, after a barbecue in Converse, a town just outside San Antonio. On the way back home, he stopped and pulled over in Turner’s neighborhood in Martindale, a city about 55 miles north-east of San Antonio. Dghoughi’s family and girlfriend believe he was possibly lost in an unfamiliar town and was checking for directions.
According to the affidavit provided to a Texas chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), it was 3.30am when Turner got up to use the bathroom and noticed a car parked in his driveway.
Turner, documents say, retrieved his gun, and when he came outside, the car Dghoughi was driving had its headlights on and was reversing out of the driveway. Turner shot Dghoughi through the car window as he was leaving, and the bullet hit his hand and his head. Turner then called 911 and said: “I just killed a guy.”
Turner claimed Dghoughi pointed a gun at him. No gun was found.
Sandra Guerra Thompson, a law professor at the University of Houston, said: “The law will presume the use of force was immediately necessary if the other person forcibly entered a person’s occupied habitation or vehicle.
“It requires you to have evidence that the individual who was killed was in the process of committing some kind of crime. If there isn’t any evidence of any kind of criminality, [self] defense just doesn’t apply.”
Thompson added: “It’s customary to drive into people’s driveways without it being considered trespass … There are other reasonable steps a concerned homeowner could take, like calling the police.”
Faizan Syed, a spokesperson for CAIR, said: “We believe the death of Adil is murder, plain and simple. Terry Turner should have been arrested the same day he shot and killed Adil.”
Syed added: “It’s a disgrace to this country and to our legal system that it took 14 days almost, along with calls to the Department of Justice, the Texas Rangers and other agencies, before the police department did their very minimal job of finding, arresting, and charging Terry Turner.”
Dghoughi’s family and attorney say he posed no threat to Turner. Dghoughi’s family is now arranging for his burial in Morocco.
How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway — and what they could teach us
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared in the night sky. A large and very bright fireball was seen over southern England and northern France at 21:54 GMT. It was recorded by many doorbell webcams, so it was a very well-observed fireball. More importantly, it was also captured by the automated cameras of the UK Meteor Observation Network and similar networks.
Working with colleagues in France and Australia, the meteor-watchers worked out the fireball’s trajectory and determined where the meteorite pieces could be located, just north of Cheltenham in the UK. Based on their calculations, Ashley King, a specialist in meteorites at the Natural History Museum in London, made an appeal on local TV and radio stations for information about any unusual black rocks seen to have fallen from the sky.
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Among the photographs he received, there was one that caught his attention: a small mound of dust and pebbles on a driveway in the small village of Winchcombe. King asked Open University researcher Richard Greenwood (who lived closest) to check out the sample. Greenwood was overwhelmed to find that not only was it a meteorite, it was a very rare species. The UK had got lucky – we had a new member to add to our meteorite collection.
Over the following four days, specialist researchers from several UK institutions formed teams to systematically search the countryside surrounding Winchcombe. The results of their labours are several stones weighing around 500g, plus a lot of dust and fragments. The specimens are now at the Natural History Museum.
Precious rocks
Why is this such a big deal? Meteorites are divided into two main groups: primitive and processed. The primitive ones come from the solar nebula that gave birth to the Solar System, preserving the composition of this original material. In contrast, processed samples have been altered by heat. They are from larger bodies and contain information about planetary surfaces and interiors.
The stones that fell over Winchcombe are from the former group – and not only that, they are of a sub-category, known as carbonaceous chondrites – the most pristine (or unchanged) of all meteorites, carrying records of the earliest stages of Solar System history. They are rich in organic compounds: the molecules that form the building blocks of life. They also contain tiny specs of dust from stars that have died and are older than the Sun.
Some of the newfound rocks are almost completely black and featureless, while others are dark grey with irregular, pale patches. Clearly, it is a complex meteorite, possibly one that has come from the surface of an asteroid where several different bits of asteroid have got mixed up during collisions.
And here is where things become a little ironic: scientists are currently collecting samples from two asteroids in space. About five grams of material collected by the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission from asteroid Ryugu arrived safely in December 2020. Nasa’s OSIRIS-Rex mission is on its return trip from asteroid Bennu carrying around 200g of material that will arrive in September 2023. These missions cost a lot of money, but could help unveil the secrets of the origins of life and the Solar System. And then just out of nowhere, almost 500g of rock from an asteroid, that is possibly very similar to Ryugu and Bennu, falls over part of England.
Next steps
Meteoriticists in the UK will now analyse the material, practically on a grain-by-grain basis. Things must happen in a sequence – there are time-sensitive measurements that have to be carried out within the first month or so of a fresh fall. Meteorites are not radioactive – they don’t emit harmful radiation – but they do contain elements that are unstable and fall apart. And if we can measure the amounts of the elements that decay very quickly, then we can get valuable information.
We must also take a good look at the organic compounds in the meteorite – there is always in danger of contamination from Earth. So the quicker we can analyse its organics, the better. The more we can understand about these materials in meteorites, the more we can piece together the chemistry that led to life on Earth. This can give an idea of how widespread that chemistry might be (or have been) in the Solar System – and even the universe.
Searching for a meteorite in a small village and its surrounding fields is not usually hazardous and requires little in the way of risk assessment: ask permission of the owners to access their land, observe the country code, remember to close gates and don’t tread in anything soft. But in the time of a pandemic, everything changes.
The UK government currently forbids citizens from travelling far from home, unless the travel is essential. Was it essential for a group of meteoriticists to travel to Winchcombe? Yes, it was. Each had completed fieldwork risk assessments and received permission to travel from their institutions. They were scrupulous about wearing masks and keeping a 2m distance when talking to locals.
I would have loved to have been involved in the search – although my colleague Sara Russell told me that cleaning the owner’s driveway with a toothbrush palled after the first hour. My arthritic knees would not have coped with that. But I was back at base, doing something just as important: putting machinery in motion to get the risk-assessment paperwork for Greenwood sorted. And, as a reward, I got to see the first close-up photographs of our new family member, dubbed “Winchcombe”. It may look a bit like a broken barbecue briquette, but to me, it is absolutely beautiful.
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Meteorite from Early Solar System Found in Person’s Driveway
We know Arrested Development hasn’t been around for a while, but we think now would be the perfect time for a “that was a freebie” from Lucille. Because a resident of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire in England has recovered a super-rare type of meteorite in their driveway, which may give us insight into the early solar system. As well as offer the same kind of materials that would otherwise require a billion-dollar space mission to retrieve.
The Smithsonian Magazine reported on the recently discovered meteorite, which the Winchcombe resident recovered following a recent fireball event. The meteor that caused the streak of fire in the sky soared over the UK on February 28. Multiple cameras caught the event, allowing for videos like the one immediately below.
Scientists say the meteorite is a carbonaceous chondrite. This type of meteorite is extant rock from the early solar system and is perhaps the rarest type; consisting of up to 5% carbon in a variety of forms, including organic matter. As well as “exotic” diamond and graphite grains from before the birth of the Sun.
“This is really exciting,” Professor Sara Russel, a researcher at the Museum, said in a press release. “There are about 65,000 known meteorites in the entire world, and of those only 51 of them are carbonaceous chondrites that have been seen to fall like this one.”
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The 300-gram meteorite likely contains soft, clay minerals, which would suggest the presence of frozen water ice from the past. The meteorite may even have amino acids, which are the “building blocks” of life.
“Meteorites like this are relics from the early solar system, which means they can tell us what the planets are made of,” Russel added in the press release. “But we also think that meteorites like this may have brought water to Earth, providing the planet with its oceans.”
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Perhaps the most shocking aspect of the meteorite, however, is how hard it would’ve otherwise been to retrieve something materially similar from space. The OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission, for example, recently sent a spacecraft to an asteroid to recover the same type of meteorite. And that mission cost nearly $1.2 billion dollars. Which means this finding wasn’t just a freebie: It was an astronomical freebie.
Feature image: Natural History Museum
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Meteorite That Fell On U.K. Driveway Contains Rare Materials
On February 28, citizens in Northern Europe and the United Kingdom witnessed a meteorite falling to Earth in a ball of fire. The event is particularly exciting to some experts who believe that the specific, very rare materials of the rock might lead to answering some questions about the universe.
After the meteorite sped through the sky at almost 14 kilometers-per-second above several countries, some of its pieces were found on a driveway in the Cotswolds. Scientists have gathered around 300 grams (10.6 ounces) of the rare rock from Winchcombe, a small Gloucestershire town and experts have confirmed that the meteorite was made of the material, carbonaceous chondrite. According to CNN, “The substance is some of the most primitive and pristine material in the solar system and has been known to contain organic material and amino acids — the ingredients for life.”
The Natural History Museum in London confirmed that the particles were collected quickly enough and in good enough condition that they have the same value as if they were brought back to earth from space.
CNN reports, “The space rock, the museum said, was similar to the sample recently returned to Earth from space by the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission, which returned about 5.4 grams of fragments from the asteroid Ryugu, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.”
Richard Greenwood is a research fellow in planetary sciences at The Open University, and was the first scientist to identify the rock. In a statement from the museum, he said, “I was in shock when I saw it and immediately knew it was a rare meteorite and a totally unique event. It’s emotional being the first one to confirm to the people standing in front of you that the thud they heard on their driveway overnight is in fact the real thing.”
The museum said that there are around 65,000 meteorites on Earth of which humans know, but people have only seen 1,206 fall to Earth, and of those, only 51 were composed of the carbonaceous chondrite material.
The meteorite fell to Earth at 9:54p.m. GMT on February 28 and was witnessed by thousands of people in the U.K. and Northern Europe. Spectators even recorded footage of the event on cameras and home security devices. The museum stated that the civilian recordings, as well as video from the UK Fireball Alliance, helped scientists discover where the meteorite particles might be located in the town in order to collect them for research. The recordings also provided scientists with information on where the meteorite came from in outer space.
The museum said that even more pieces of the meteorite might be found in the form of black rocks, piles of small stones, or dust, in the area. While the meteorite landed on a driveway in Winchcombe, additional fragments have been gathered from the surrounding location.
Ashley King, a UK research and innovation future leaders fellow in the department of earth sciences at the Museum, said, “Nearly all meteorites come to us from asteroids, the leftover building blocks of the solar system that can tell us how planets like the Earth formed. The opportunity to be one of the first people to see and study a meteorite that was recovered almost immediately after falling is a dream come true!”
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