[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall In Georgia?

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:25:46 2004
Message-ID: <008e01c32663$e67d6060$77c39f44_at_b4b9e1>

Hello Everyone,

I am looking into this. Will try to have something to report this weekend.

-Walter

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:03 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall In Georgia?


>
>
> http://www.wtoctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1297825&nav=0qq6G4jv
>
> Meteorite on Tybee?
> WTOC 11 (Savannah, Georgia)
>
> Imagine hanging out on the deck with friends and family when suddenly,
> something just drops from the sky. It hit the deck--literally--during a
> Tybee cookout. No one can be absolutely sure about what it is, but for
> this family, one thing they do know is this is a family vacation they
> will never forget.
>
> Witnesses described a loud bang, like board on board smashing together.
> It was a space rock that this Chicago family says landed in the backyard
> of their summer home.
>
> "We saw a divot in the deck and we picked it up," recalled David Lozano.
> "It was very warm, not hot."
>
> At first, everyone had their own theory on the rock's origin.
>
> "I thought a bird dropped it," said Lozano. "I thought it just clopped
down."
>
> "I thought no way, there are no meteors in Savannah," one young witness
said.
>
> But after a few close observations and a few phone calls, this family came
> to realize this foreign object might actually be from a galaxy far, far
away.
> Luckily no one got hurt and the only damage was this dent in the deck: now
> the question for these amateur astrologers is, what's next?
>
> "I'll take it to Chicago see if we have any bidders," said John Crowley.
"Put
> it in the family fund and we will be back here next year."
>
> The family says they know people in Chicago who can tell them if the rock
> really is meteorite, and how much they can get for it.
>
> Reported by: Hena Daniels, hdaniels_at_wtoc.com
>
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Received on Fri 30 May 2003 12:28:20 AM PDT