[meteorite-list] Meteorite doubts emerge (the Norway "meteorite)

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 12 17:47:40 2006
Message-ID: <1arab2hoj2d3cukvus5rv7v0cairn4mm36_at_4ax.com>

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:52:53 -0500, you wrote:

> This kind of report -- the odd rock and the
>strange hole in the garden kind of report -- tends
>to come, singly or in a small flurry, after a real
>event. The seed of the notion is already in place.
>Humans "see" what they are prepared to "see."
>Likewise, they often don't "see" what they
>don't expect to "see." The senses+brain system
>is not a simple "camera-like" mechanism.

Wonder how many of those are honest errors, and how many are frauds where people
think that claiming that it is a meteorite is enough to generate a buyer even if
it is something they pulled out of their terrarium? For someone who doesn't
know how testing works, maybe the idea is that funny looking rock + hole = $$$$
Received on Wed 12 Jul 2006 05:48:30 PM PDT