[meteorite-list] Builders Find Possible Meteorite at Indiana Construction Site

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:43 2004
Message-ID: <3FD7A56E.6090302_at_fascination.com>

Cough, cough, the TV station says it all...."WISHTV" didn't anyone
catch that?

Dave F. (who wishes too)


Kevin Fly Hill wrote:

>"He believes the object burned its way into the material."
>
>Here we go with those burning meteorites again
>
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>From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
>To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:32 AM
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Builders Find Possible Meteorite at Indiana
>Construction Site
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>>http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1558562%20&%20nav=0Ra7Jafg
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>>Builders Find Possible Meteorite at Construction Site
>>Associated Press
>>December 10, 2003
>>
>>Two Shelby county home builders are trying to find out if a rock they
>>found imbedded in foam insulation at a construction site could be a
>>meteorite.
>>
>>Bob Weddle and his son Brian Weddle discovered the rock December first
>>inside a stack of sheets of foam material left outside at a work site
>>near Shelbyville. The rock was about four inches around and had a porous
>>surface. It was about seven inches deep in the insulation.
>>
>>Bob Weddle says a rock would have bounced off. He believes the object
>>burned its way into the material.
>>
>>Indiana University geologist Abhijit Basu says that's possible, if the
>>rock is a meteorite. Another expert -- Carl Agee, director of the
>>Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico -- says a
>>meteorite would be more likely to pierce the foam than melt through it.
>>
>>The Weddles are trying to find an expert to confirm if what they found
>>was a meteorite.
>>
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>>http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/2695269/detail.html
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>>Rock Found In Home May Be Meteorite
>>
>>Rock Found In Insulation
>>The Louisville Channel
>>December 10, 2003
>>
>>SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- Two home builders were trying to find out if a rock
>>they found imbedded in foam insulation at a construction site could be a
>>meteorite.
>>
>>Builders Bob Weddle, 51, and his son Brian Weddle, 27, discovered the
>>rock Dec. 1 inside a stack of sheets of foam material left outside at a
>>work site near Shelbyville, about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis.
>>
>>The rock, which was about 4 inches around and had a porous surface, was
>>about seven inches deep in the insulation.
>>
>>"If it fell into a field, I wouldn't have noticed anything about it,
>>but it went through that foam," Bob Weddle said. "If you threw a rock
>>at the foam, it'd bounce right off it. This burned its way through it."
>>
>>That's possible, said Abhijit Basu, a geologist at Indiana University. A
>>meteor burning through the atmosphere is "more than red-hot; it's
>>bluish-green hot," he said.
>>
>>Carl Agee, director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of
>>New Mexico, said a meteorite would be more likely to crash through a
>>stack of foam than melt through, however.
>>
>>Most meteor showers do not produce objects large enough to reach the
>>ground, he said.
>>
>>The Weddles were trying to find an expert to confirm whether the rock
>>was a meteorite.
>>
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