[meteorite-list] Falling Into Reading

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:36 2004
Message-ID: <200305080013.RAA00631_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

>
> There was a discussion about this "meteorite" last year. Unfortunately, Ms.
> Polacco's family heirloom is not meteoric; it was one of those stories that
> takes on a life of its own. She is also very adamant that the events
> happened just as the family story goes, don't try to tell her that her
> grandparents' headstone isn't a meteorite, or she will chew you a new one.
> Otherwise, her books are very good children's reading.
>

This is beginning to sound like one of those cases where someone witnesses
a fireball, and the first rock they find they mistakenly assume is the meteorite from
the fall, when in fact it is just an Earth rock. This mistake has been made many,
many times.

The rock can be sent off to a lab and tested. But if Alan says it is not a meteorite,
then that is good enough for me.

Ron Baalke
Received on Wed 07 May 2003 08:13:58 PM PDT