[meteorite-list] What do you think of that?

From: David Freeman <dfreeman_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:04 2004
Message-ID: <400D82AD.2070704_at_fascination.com>

Lotta' truth there Jerry,
Here, we been founden' um' down by the sheep pen...tiny round
ones...carboon ace us ones....Lots of 'em!
df

Jerry A. Wallace wrote:

> Bernhard "Rendelius" Rems wrote:
>
>> http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2219315732&category=3239
>> <http://cgi.ebay.at/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2219315732&category=3239>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> *Bernhard “/Rendelius”/ Rems*
>>
>
> Well, Bernhard, I had the same initial reaction to the pictures that
> Dave F. did; it sure
> looked like some Sikhote Alin schrapnel.
>
> But aside from that, judging from their eBay ad text description, it
> appears that there
> are none of the standard descriptors nor expected phrases present in
> the ad that would
> lend credibility to their claim of having found a meteorite, with one
> exception which I
> will expand on below.
>
> Some descriptors and/or phrases that should be present in an ad that
> would help ensure
> authenticity are:
>
> * ... burned down the barn, the store, the outhouse, etc.
>
> * ... frightened- Mama, the horse, the goat, the pig, etc.
>
> * ... killed the cow, the dog, the mailman, etc.
>
> * ... too hot to touch for three days.
>
> * ... set the field, the woods, Charlie, etc., on fire.
>
> * ... glowed real bright green, red, blue, etc., all night.
>
> * ... melted the shovel, pick, car, cat, etc.
>
> * ... picked that little sucker up out of the bottom of the ten foot
> deep crater that it made.
>
> There are, of course, any number of other descriptor/phrases that lend
> virtually
> infallible authenticity to what would otherwise be 'questionable
> meteorites'. But
> the ones above will give a good start to novices unfamiliar with what
> to look for
> in the eBay ads.
>
> The one item in the eBay ad description that had a ring of truth to it
> was the
> mention that it was found only twenty minutes after falling.
>
> I can easily imagine the following scenario (you'll have to excuse me
> for not
> illustrating this with people from the towns of Palencia and León in
> Spain; I
> have to go with what I'm familiar with):
>
> <Zeb and Luke are rocking on the front porch of their shack high in
> the Ozark
> mountains, in the cool of the evening, imbibing their nightly
> refreshment.
> NOTE: Setting not important- same thing can and does happen anywhere in
> the world.>
>
> ZEB: "Looky thar, Luke, a shootin' star!"
>
> LUKE: "Yep. Shore nuff, Zeb, 'nother one o' them rascals."
>
> ZEB: "Looks like it landed jes' over that hill yonder. Let's go git
> that sucker."
>
> LUKE: "Alrighty. I'll jes' grab the jug to take along. Nice night fer
> a stroll ennyhow"
>
> <Down the road and behind the hill twenty minutes later.>
>
> ZEB: "Yep. Thar she lies, Luke. Rat thar in the smack dab middle o'
> the trail."
>
> LUKE: "Wal, whatcha wanna do with this one, Zeb?"
>
> ZEB: "Wal, I reckin we can do what we done with all them others, Luke.
> Let's
> take 'er back to the shack, take some o' them deegital pichers of it and
> git the little sucker listed on eBay as quick as we can."
>
> LUKE: "Sounds like a plan to me, Zeb. Can always use that extree money
> these
> thangs bring in. Need 'nother snort?"
>
> ZEB: "Yup."
>
> [With apologies to Arkansas Steve Arnold and other Southerners likely
> to take offense.]
>
> West Texas Jerry
>
>> **
>>
>
>
>
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