[meteorite-list] Meteor-doubtful

From: Jerry A. Wallace <jwal2000_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:53:35 2004
Message-ID: <3E01763B.90506_at_swbell.net>

Well folks, after a bit of snooper-sleuthing on the photo of the object
on the counter top with
with my Whiz Bang High Resolution/ High Magnification software, I
believe I have determined
that the object in question _is not_ a "recent chunk of horse puckey" as
our colleague Bill Mason
proposed. It is my determination that it is an old, badly baked, lumpy
loaf of wheat bread. There
is some evidence of green colored inclusions breaking through the crust
(and, I recall another
amongst us claiming there appeared to be no crust!!!). Any meteoriticist
worth a chondrule should
immediately jump to the conclusion that these are exposed olivene
grains, and that the piece is
obviously a rare pallasite worth untold millions (and should bid
accordingly.).

But whoa down there, comet breath. Those exposed inclusions are, upon
microscopic inspection,
a fairly good grade of mold spores erupting in little patches here and
there (easily mistaken for
olivene- in a bad photo.) I also suspect that the loaf is, by now, very
hard and heavy, and
could, perhaps, be mistaken for the honest-to-goodness meteorite that
caused Grandpa's
barn to explode and burn in 1931. And, if the loaf is getting a tad
moldy, it could once again
be warm to the touch, which, there again, would lead a person to easily
mistake it for the still
warm meteorite that caused Hugh's hole over 72 years ago.

So, to be fair, one could assume that this is merely a case of mistaken
identity by these
sidewinders trying to perpetrate this obvious hoax. But, I guess we'll
never know, since
it looks like one of the cahooters is going to be the lucky winner in
this farce.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2900909851

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all,

Jerry Wallace
Odessa, Texas

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Bill Mason III wrote:

>Well my years as a geologist and paleontologist tell me that it is a
>fossilized coprolite or a more recent chunk of horse puckey. but I'll bet
>it smells the same. a scam is a scam by any other name is still a scam.
>and that is free!
>Bill Mason
>
>
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