[meteorite-list] Fourth-grader Finds Meteorite in Florida?

From: Ken Newton <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:15:14 -0500
Message-ID: <4744D822.1040408_at_earthlink.net>

Hi,
History repeats itself.
http://meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/11041981.htm
http://meteorite-identification.com/mwnews/burnin.html
Best,
ken



Adam Hupe wrote:
> Looks like the kid needs to learn a lesson in telling
> the truth. Come on, steam coming out of the hole and
> it burnt his little pinky, give me a break!
>
> Happy Thanksgiving,
>
> Adam
>
>
> --- debfred at att.net wrote:
>
>
>> List, I have a geologist friend who knows meteorites
>> go and see this "hot find" yesterday. As you all
>> would suspect it is NOT a meteorite! Looks like a
>> piece of slag. Regards, Fred Olsen
>>
>> -------------- Original message
>> ----------------------
>> From: Ron Baalke <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
>>
>>>
>>>
> http://www.ocala.com/article/20071118/NEWS/211180344/1368/googlesitemapnews
>
>>> Fourth-grader finds meteorite in yard
>>> BY KAREN VOYLES
>>> THE GAINESVILLE SUN (Florida)
>>> November 18, 2007
>>>
>>> CEDAR KEY - A fourth-grader got a personal,
>>>
>> hands-on lesson in
>>
>>> meteorites earlier this week.
>>>
>>> Jeremiah Barnes, 10, was the featured speaker in
>>>
>> science classes at
>>
>>> Cedar Key School Friday, where he explained how he
>>>
>> saw the meteorite
>>
>>> fall into his yard at the beginning of the week.
>>>
>>> After seeing an object streak into the yard,
>>>
>> Jeremiah told high school
>>
>>> classes he initially thought one of his cousins
>>>
>> had thrown something
>>
>>> over the fence. After running over to the object
>>>
>> and touching it,
>>
>>> Jeremiah said he knew it was something
>>>
>> extraordinary.
>>
>>> "It burned my finger so I ran in the house and got
>>>
>> my sister," Jeremiah
>>
>>> said.
>>>
>>> After seeing a blister rise on her brother's index
>>>
>> finger, Angel Neese,
>>
>>> a 14-year-old ninth-grader, doused the object with
>>>
>> water from the garden
>>
>>> house. Brother and sister watched in fascination
>>>
>> as the water being
>>
>>> poured into the shoebox-sized hole made by the
>>>
>> object instantly began
>>
>>> boiling.
>>>
>>> "It kind of looked like lava from a volcano, but
>>>
>> then I remembered what
>>
>>> we learned in [eighth-grade] science class. And I
>>>
>> kind of thought it
>>
>>> would be a meteorite," Angel said. After the
>>>
>> object cooled, Angel
>>
>>> pointed out the metals in it to her little brother
>>>
>> and explained what
>>
>>> she remembered about objects superheating when
>>>
>> they entered the Earth's
>>
>>> atmosphere.
>>>
>>> Jeremiah presented the molten lump to high school
>>>
>> science teacher
>>
>>> Richard Whitman, who confirmed it was a meteorite
>>>
>> and called the
>>
>>> astronomy department at the University of Florida
>>>
>> to try to figure out
>>
>>> the odds of a fourth-grader in the state's
>>>
>> smallest public school
>>
>>> actually seeing a meteorite hit the ground.
>>>
>>> "Not a real likely event," Whitman said. "For
>>>
>> anyone."
>>
>>> Jeremiah said he plans to keep the meteorite and
>>>
>> is cautious about who
>>
>>> gets to handle his new treasure. After telling his
>>>
>> story to the high
>>
>>> school science students, Jeremiah answered
>>>
>> questions, then walked from
>>
>>> desk to desk allowing the teenagers to look and
>>>
>> touch, but being careful
>>
>>> to make sure it remained over a desk to reduce the
>>>
>> risk of an accidental
>>
>>> drop.
>>>
>>> "I want to make sure I have it always, and it
>>>
>> doesn't ever get broken,"
>>
>>> Jeremiah said.
>>>
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