[meteorite-list] re: spanish meteorite?

From: marco.langbroek_at_wanadoo.nl <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:01:33 2004
Message-ID: <1023966181.3d087be5af9bf_at_webmail3.wanadoo.nl>

Hi Mike, Walter,

Somewhere in the back of my mind, my memorie says I once read somewhere that
this 'meteorite' was analyzed and turned out to be metal slag, and that there
was a whole pile of this matter at the spot where it should have happened. But
my memorie fails to retrieve where I read that.

Marco



Message: 17
From: "Michael Farmer" <farmerm_at_concentric.net>
To: "Walter Branch" <branchw_at_bellsouth.net>,
        <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Spanish Meteorite?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:29:35 -0700

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I can fill you in, last year i was in Madrid and saw this stone, The =
curator of the Spanish collection told Jim Strope and I that the stone =
fell on a parked BMW at night and broke the window, and bent the =
steering wheal. The man was not in the car when she told me! the stone =
is still unclassified just because they have not yet gotten to it.=20
Mike Farmer
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  From: Walter Branch=20
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  Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:16 PM
  Subject: [meteorite-list] Spanish Meteorite?


  Hello Everyone,

  I have an astronomy textbook (Voyages Through the Universe, Fraknoi, =
Morrison, and Wolf, 1997) in which a meteorite is reported to have =
struck a car and the driver. On page 275, the text reads:

  In June199, Jose Martin and his wife were driving from Madrid, Spain =
to a golfing vacation when a fist-sized meteorite crashed through the =
windshield, bounced off the dashboard, broke Jose's little finger, and =
then landed in the car's back seat.

  Does anyone have any information about this meteorite?

  Best wishes,

  -Walter


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