[meteorite-list] Re: New Concord Meteorite, Hot and Cold Again

From: AL Mitterling <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jul 23 13:27:54 2005
Message-ID: <42E27E15.8070209_at_kconline.com>

Hi Mark and list,

I find the statement below hard to believe, because of the time to reach
the specimen and it being in moist soil. Perhaps the sun was shinning
(according to Mark's other posts it was partly cloudy) and it had a
chance to heat the black crust before the men reached it. Best!

--AL

MARK BOSTICK wrote:

> Paper: Banner of Liberty
> City: Middletown, New York
> Date: Wednesday, May 30, 1860
> Page: 1 (of 8)

Within about twenty minutes they approached and dug out the one which
had fallen into the
field, where it had buried itself to the depth of about twenty inches in
a stiff limestone
soil. It was still so hot that it could scarcely be held in the hands.
Received on Sat 23 Jul 2005 01:27:49 PM PDT