[meteorite-list] Park Forest splash forms update

From: Steve Schoner <steve_schoner_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:13:09 2004
Message-ID: <20030425035716.4436.qmail_at_web12706.mail.yahoo.com>

These objects could very well be spalled molten
material from the wake of the fireball. As the
meteoroid vaporized, the material would recondense in
the fireball's path.

Such objects are not often found because the
prevailing winds usually will desperse them widely.

However, if the jetstream is moving in the general
direction of the fireball's path, then these objects
"could" fall in the same area that the meteorite
fragments fell.

This could in the case of Park Forrest be the case.

Steve Schoner
http://www.geocities.com/meteorite_identification
http://www.geocities.com/american_meteorite_survey




--- Adam Hupe <adamhupe_at_attbi.com> wrote:
> Dear List Members,
>
> I have been receiving a lot of emails concerning the
> Park Forest tektite
> looking objects. It is our hope that somebody on
> the list in the Chicago
> area can go to the Park Forest neighborhood and
> collect all the trappings
> minus leafs in gutters from houses located next to
> the houses that were
> impacted. We need this material for control samples
> to see if the objects
> are associated with the impact sites or are
> scattered randomly throughout
> the neighborhood.
>
> Here are a few Scanning Electron Microscope pictures
> of the objects for your
> enjoyment:
>
> Complete Teardrop link:
> http://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/probe3.jpg
>
> Notice how clean the surface is, these are not part
> of the composition
> shingle as somebody suggested. These are composed
> of iron bearing glass.
> Note the glass strings flowed over the surface.
>
>
> Thin section of Ball link:
> http://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/probe1.jpg
>
> Notice the swirls, the lighter colored areas contain
> more iron. There are
> also vesicles like in indochinites.
>
> At this time the origin of these glass objects is
> unknown. They have never
> been associated with a meteorite fall before, kind
> of like something you
> would see on the X-Files.
>
> All the best,
>
> Adam and Greg Hupe
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Thu 24 Apr 2003 11:57:16 PM PDT