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

From: Jim <Jim_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:45 2004
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You seem smart, thanks for your comments.

Jim Strope
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From: "Tom aka James Knudson" <knudson911_at_frontiernet.net>
To: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>; "Meteorite Mailing List"
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Indiana Rock Likely Came From Earth, Scientist
Says


> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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> 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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