[meteorite-list] "SNEAKY LITTLE DEVILS" NJO CONFIRMED METEORWRONG

From: Pete Pete <rsvp321_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 04:29:41 -0400
Message-ID: <BAY141-F3214078497102191E09B61F83F0_at_phx.gbl>

Not to keep flogging this dead horse, but I also am skeptical about these
guys continuing to identify the source of the object without any evidence to
support!

What makes them so convinced that it actually came from space?
Is there an indication of ablation? There would have to be, right?
It sure doesn't look like there is.

They may be eating crow again...

Cheers,
Pete





From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] "SNEAKY LITTLE DEVILS" NJO CONFIRMED METEORWRONG
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:26:42 -0400



It has finally been determined by experts that the NJO is not a meteorite.

In Friday's AP story, Rutgers University geologist Jerry Delaney was quoted
as saying,"I was wrong. Sneaky little devil."

The second sentiment is not even remotely accurate.

As I mentioned to the list in January, there was absolutely nothing about
the NJO which resembled a new meteorite. I advised the Newark Star Ledger,
The New York Times and AP in writing that the NJO was not a meteorite. I
contacted the museum at Rutgers prior to their exhibition of the
object---which generated the largest attendance on a single day---that this
was not a meteorite.

The only "sneaky little devils" are the folks at Rutgers University.

Stories are released on Friday nights so the story will miss the news
cycle. It's for stories that would cause embarrassment; it's for those
moments where you hope the story disappears.

This is just so deplorable---and it's not an isolated instance of how an
institution with something to gain---and the media---work. But for
scientists to be so sloppy in THEIR work is just so....disappointing. As I
wrote to the list several months ago: "While [this] may ultimately be among
the most unusual freshly fallen meteorites known to exist, such an
assessment cannot and should not ever have been made by simply passing it
around for a casual analysis and singing kumbaya."

Here is the latest story....in case you missed it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/ap_on_sc/fallen_object


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