[meteorite-list] Metal Object Crashes Through New Jersey Home

From: Tom Randall <tommy2005_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:46:32 -0500
Message-ID: <0F0EF1A8-DBAE-4AB6-8EAC-52CE17B94785_at_hvc.rr.com>

WNBC-TV here in N.Y. showed a clip of the rock yesterday, no fusion
crust that I could see. Pretty clean looking for a fresh fall. Looked
kind of like an iron but no fusion crust was visible to me at least.
I'm no expert by any means. Definitely caught my ear as they talked
about the story at first.

Regards and Happy new year to all

Tom


On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Ron Baalke wrote:

>
> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_Fallen_Object.html
>
> Metal object crashes through N.J. home
> By CHRIS NEWMARKER
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
> January 3, 2007
>
> [photo]
> A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball is seen in
> this undated photograph provided by Det. R. Gelber of Freehold
> Township
> Police Department in Freehold Township, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007.
> Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13
> ounces,
> crashed into the a Monmouth County home Tuesday night. Federal
> officials
> sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. (AP Photo/ Det. R.
> Gelber of Freehold township Police Department )
>
> FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A metal, rock-like object about the size
> of a
> golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through
> the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were
> trying to figure out what it was.
>
> Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13
> ounces,
> crashed into the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night.
> Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft.
>
> The rough-feeling object, with a metallic glint, was displayed
> Wednesday
> by police. "There's some great interest in what we have here," said
> Lt.
> Robert Brightman. "It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything
> like it
> in my career."
>
> He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but
> declined to name the other agencies whose help he said he had
> enlisted.
>
> Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had
> punched a hole in the roof of a single-family, two-story home, damaged
> tiles on a bathroom floor below and then bounced, sticking into a
> wall.
>
> The object was heavier than a usual metal object of that size, said
> Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected.
>
> Brightman would not disclose the address of the house or the names of
> the people who lived there, citing the family's desire to not talk to
> the media. He would only say that the couple and their adult son
> live in
> a township housing development.
>
> Brightman said one man who lives at the home found the object at
> about 9
> p.m. Tuesday after returning from work and hearing from his mother
> that
> something had crashed through the roof a few hours before.
>
> The Federal Aviation Administration, which sent investigators to the
> town, did not know where the object came from, said spokeswoman Arlene
> Murray.
>
> "It's definitely not an aircraft part," she said. "I can't speak
> beyond
> that as to what it might be."
>
> Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the
> entire
> planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers
> University.
>
> "It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven," said
> Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the Monmouth County
> home.
> "These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal."
>
> Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if
> the object were a meteorite.
>


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