[meteorite-list] Ms. Polacco / Meteorite

From: Mauro Ianeselli <mauro.ian_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:38 2004
Message-ID: <1052669399.606.5.camel_at_ncc1701>

Hello Steve and list,

the link of website is:

http://www.patriciapolacco.com/12-07-02/html/_author_info/bio/bio.html


Mauro Ianeselli / Italy - IMCA # 2122



Il dom, 2003-05-11 alle 05:19, SSachs9056_at_aol.com ha scritto:
> Rose and List,
> Ms. Polacco is a children's writer from Michigan. She wrote a children's book
> entitled "METEOR!" in 1987. As the story goes her grandparents saw a meteor
> fall on their farm and the whole town came to see it, there was a parade,
> blah, blah. It's a cute story, and in the story it mentions that "scientists"
> came from Battle Creek College and University of Michigan and Michigan State
> University to the farm to study the meteorite. What's unusual about the story
> is that the story concludes that the meteorite was ultimately used as her
> Grandmother's grave / headstone.
>
> Ms. Polacco apparently came back to the farm to live after being away for
> many years--and now calls the farm: "Meteor Ridge Farm". Unfortunately for
> Ms. Polacco, the "headstone" has been examined by list members visiting the
> gravesite---(and well you know how this is going to end)....it's not a
> meteorite. There is no listing in the Meteoritical Bulletin,...nothing. Have
> never seen any scientific / historical data to back the story.
>
> Don't think anyone's had the heart to trudge up to Meteor Ridge Farm and
> burst her bubble. Sometime memories should just stay that way. Anyhoo---I'm
> of the opinion that Ms. Polacco wouldn't believe any of us giving her the
> un-varnished truth. She---and like so many before her--would remain steadfast
> in her beliefs that a meteor really fell on her grandparent's farm---despite
> what scientists today would say.
>
> There was a website complete with a pic of the headstone I downloaded a few
> years back. Don't know if her site is still up and running. Just punch in
> Meteor Ridge Farm on YAHOO. Still...it's a cute story.
>
> Steven L. Sachs / Near Chicago / IMCA # 9210
>
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Mauro Ianeselli
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