[meteorite-list] Perseid Meteor Hammerstone!

From: Greg Stanley <stanleygregr_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:39:41 -0700
Message-ID: <SNT117-W1384F37F50E6C94FCCC638D2FC0_at_phx.gbl>

No... rocks don't fly up, they fall down.

It's a Enstatite chondrite - just by looking at it with a microscope.

It would be nice to see a picture of it, and the railroad gravel too.

Greg S.


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> From: prairiecactus at rtcol.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:19:11 -0400
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Perseid Meteor Hammerstone!
>
> Yet another Perseid meteor strikes the Earth! This one's a hammerstone!
> Any chance that nearby passing train kicked up a piece of railroad rock?
> Nah......
>
> Phil Whitmer
>
>
>
> http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/s/2056117_meteorite_shatters_mans_conservatory
>
> 'Meteorite' shatters man's conservatory
> By Jack Sommers
> August 21, 2009
>
>
> A MAN is convinced a meteorite hit his home in Fleet on Tuesday.
>
> Humphrey Peek was sitting at his home in Cove Road on August 18 when he
> heard a loud bang.
>
> He said: "I thought that doesn't sound right. I thought it my washing
> machine had gone or a door had blown shut."
>
> When he went to his conservatory he found the glass door had been smashed.
>
> His first thought was that someone had thrown something from a passing
> train.
>
> A day later his neighbour inspected the damage and spotted a small black
> piece of rock.
>
> "If that had hit me when I was out in the garden it would've killed me stone
> dead," Mr Peek said.
>
> Mr Peek, who worked for 35 years in the mining industry identifying
> materials and rocks, put it under the microscope.
>
> What he saw convinced him it was an Enstatite chondrite meteorite.
>
> He contacted the Natural History Museum, who told him meteorites hitting
> falling to earth was "not as uncommon as you might think".
>
> The museum asked if it could have the rock but he wanted to keep it.
>
> He filed an insurance claim and was visited by his insurer.
>
> Mr Peek said his insurer wrote meteor strike on his clipboard under the
> section describing the cause of the accident.
>
> The "meteorite" hit a week after stargazers were out looking to see the peak
> of the annual Perseids meteor shower.
>
> Mr Peek was among those hoping to catch a glimpse of the shooting stars
>
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