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Re: Meteorite hits house report!

Thomas Randall wrote:
> 
>   Hi gang,
>    Read this in the sci.astro newsgroup yesterday:
> Any more info?! I'm doing a news search now....
> Not sure if you folks got this since the list has been down, sorry if you
> got it already!
> 
> "The Tennessean newspaper for June, 17, 1998, had a page one story
> describing how an apparent meteorite struck the house of Houston Woods,
> 6116 Nashua Ave., Nashville, TN, about 9:00 AM Saturday.  Houston and
> Dolores Woods were home when they heard a loud noise like an explosion
> and found a lump of metal in the bed in the master bedroom.  The story
> quoted Louis Levine, a neighbor who works as collections manager and
> programs specialist for the Cumberland Science Museum here in Nashville,
> as saying the object appears to be a meteorite and that it will be sent
> to the Smithsonian Institution for analysis.  The newspaper had a photo
> of Mr. Woods holding what appears to be a palm sized iron meteorite."
Hello Thomas:
     I took a look at the picture on the website you gave. Note it is
fresh metal with no fusion crust. Even irons dont come through looking
like that. Somethings not right with that one.......Ken / ARN
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