[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall in Australia?

From: Kevin Heider <kpheider_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Jun 29 12:30:09 2004
Message-ID: <000701c45df6$24dcbac0$ae330a18_at_attbi.com>

From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:25 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall in Australia?


>
> http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2004/06/28/1088274657543.html
>
> A TERANG man believes a meteorite whizzed past his head in the early
> hours of the morning last week.
>
> "I walked out to have a look and there was a deep hole, about 18 inches,
> and I got a spade and started digging around the rock."
>
> He said the 250-gram object was seven or eight centimetres across and
> was brown, red and other colours.

Pardon my ignorance, but would a fresh meteorite have signs of oxidation?
Where is the fusion crust? Or is that just earth dirt on the outside of the
meteorite?

I looks a lot like hematite to my untrained eye.

-- Kevin Heider
Received on Tue 29 Jun 2004 12:28:42 PM PDT