[meteorite-list] The 'Home Plate' Meteorite

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:37 2004
Message-ID: <200305082121.OAA16876_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/08/SP16194.DTL

IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
San Franciso Chronicle
May 8, 2003

[snip]

An 18-by-18-inch piece of space rock -- dubbed the "Home
Plate Meteorite" because that's what it looks like -- is
expected to fetch $65,000 to $80,000 at auction this Sunday. It
fell in a meteorite shower 1,000 years ago in Chile.

Owner Darryl Pitt of New York City told Sports Illustrated he
hopes a big- league team enters the bidding. "The Houston
Astros would be a natural."

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Received on Thu 08 May 2003 05:21:07 PM PDT