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Re: Caroliner Meteoroids?

On 1/26/98 10:46AM, in message <"R7w6b.A.l8B.wMYz0"@mu.pair.com>, 
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com wrote:


> I was asked on aol about what I know about the Caroliner Meteoroids? I am not
> familiar with this "shower" or "fall" whichever it may be. Is there anyone
> else out there that have any info about this if it rings any bells? It seems
> like I vaguely heard it mentioned once, I just can't remember anything about
> it? 
> GeoZay

Hi GeoZay,

There was someone selling a Caroliner (or Carolina) Meteorites from Kentucky 
at some of the Rocks and Gem Shows in the midwest. At one show some of my 
meteorite collecting friends took a close look at these and tried to tell the 
woman selling them that they were rocks. She was argumentive about it. I 
believe that she thought they were the real thing but didn't know what a real 
meteorite was. I was contacted by one of the Gem Show promoters and asked about 
it and back the collectors who saw the specimens as they know what a meteorite 
looks like have many in their collections.


Meteoroids are found in space and are potential meteors. Meteorites are meteors 
that make it to the ground. Meteor showers are normally not associated with 
Meteorites but rather are cometary debris streams. Meteorites are associated 
with asteroid material or in a few rare cases Mars and lunar material.

--AL