[meteorite-list] Indiana Rock Likely Came From Earth, Scientist Says

From: Tom aka James Knudson <knudson911_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:45 2004
Message-ID: <006f01c3c0ce$94a149e0$29c143d8_at_malcolm>

They all sound like a bunch of idiots and I think they deserve a column of
their own on the Proud Tom site!!!
Thanks, Tom
Peregrineflier <><
Yea, that's right,
The proudest member of the IMCA # 6168
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From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 9:31 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Indiana Rock Likely Came From Earth, Scientist
Says


>
> http://www.indystar.com/articles/5/101451-2735-009.html
>
> Burning rock likely came from Earth, scientist says
> By Andy Gammill
> Indystar.com
> December 12, 2003
>
> Indiana University scientists have concluded that a 4-inch rock that
> crashed into a Shelby County construction site probably isn't a meteorite.
>
> That leaves an even bigger mystery: where exactly the rock came from, and
> how it burned itself 7 inches deep into a pile of foam insulation.
>
> Bob and Brian Weddle, the Shelby County homebuilders who found it two
weeks
> ago, want to know what the rock is and said they plan to have other
> experts look at it.
>
> Nelson Shaffer, a researcher at the Indiana Geological Survey, took
samples
> of the rock Thursday and examined them at his Bloomington laboratory.
Tests
> suggest an earthly origin, he said.
>
> If the rock is a meteorite, it's unlike any ever found before, he said.
> Meteorites are so rare that Shaffer has found only two since he began
> studying them in 1974.
>
> Shaffer's tests confirmed that the rock contains quartz, which has never
> been found on a meteorite. Plus, the rock isn't metallic and doesn't have
> the glassy coating usually found on meteorites, he said.
>
> The Weddles have heard from several other experts and called a few on
their
> own to try to find out what the rock is.
>
> They have found themselves inundated with calls from the media, meteorite
> hounds and the curious.
>
> An Indianapolis television station offered to take the object to the Field
> Museum or the Smithsonian Institution for further study, Bob Weddle said.
>
> Shaffer said they were right to bring in experts so quickly. Scientists
can
> glean important details about space by studying "fresh" meteorites, he
said.
>
> For now, the Weddles are trying to manage the rock and its attention while
> still managing to work on the home where they found it, said Bob Weddle,
51.
>
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