[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - August 1, 2007

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 05:01:59 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <894037.45852.qm_at_web33104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

I believe those were old particles from the roofing
shingles and tar, clearly not in the same league as
that amazing Eucrite.
Michael Farmer

--- Bill <glixard at inbox.com> wrote:

> Incredible... The "needle-like fusion artifacts"
> remind me of this old post:
>
> Dear List Members, You are going to think we are
> insane > announcing this but we feel it
> is important. We acquired a > computer game still in
> the box that was struck by a
> meteorite > inside a house on Dunham street in the
> Park Forest > neighborhood. This is
> from the same site that Mike Farmer > purchased the
> House Hammering stone. This game box
> acted as a > receptacle trapping some fragments from
> the meteorite, wood > from the attic
> and sheet rock from the ceiling. While > examining
> the contents of the game box under a
> microscope we > were shocked to see the following
> objects: Dumbbell shaped > glassy
> formsTeardrop shaped glassy formsRod shaped glassy >
> formsPatty shaped glassy forms with
> sunken centersBall shaped > glassy > forms
>
Dumbbellhttp://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/microtektites1.jpg
> Dumbbell > and >
>
Teardrophttp://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/microtektites2.jpg
> Mixture > of several >
> types
>
http://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/microtektites3.jpg
> These > are all the same
> shapes you will find in Tektites, yet these > cannot
> be called impactites since the
> meteorite did not melt > any objects when it crashed
> through the roof. This is no joke >
> so you collectors in the field may want to revisit
> the houses > that were struck by
> meteorites and collect the debris left > behind
> before it is too late. We do not know the
> scientific > importance of this discovery but will
> find out soon since the > University of
> Washington is interested in pursuing these > strange
> objects. It has been suggested that
> these objects may > have come from the ablation
> train left behind by this fall. It > is
> our hope that more of this material is collected
> before it > is too late. All the Best
> Adam Hupe
>
> It's funny that these pictures came up today as I
> was just searching the archives, found
> Adam's thread and would like to know the final
> determination of the glassy PF "artifacts"
> he recovered, not that PF could ever compare to
> these spectacular new porcupines!
>
> Thanks for all the pics,
> Bill
>
>
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> > 2007
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Received on Wed 01 Aug 2007 08:01:59 AM PDT