[meteorite-list] Meteorite fell in front of children

From: Thomas Österberg <marie.m.osterberg_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:43:25 +0200
Message-ID: <70D0B5DFD985488C8591CC893055D2D7_at_thomaslemjmqar>

Dear Listoids,

It looks like the dog Hopper now has got a competitor, living in southern
Sweden! Her name is Molly.

According to the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet, a meteorite fell down in
front of a group of cildren (and the dog Molly) last week, just outside the
small village St.Olof, situated in the Swedish provice of Scania, about 100
km east of Copenhagen.

Heres a link to the article:
http://sydsvenskan.se/sverige/article538923/Barn-nara-att-traffas-av-mystisk-flygande-sten.html

I have tried to translate the text content to English.

The children Villmaron Andreasson 9, Linn-Klara Andreasdaughter 7, Ebba
Larsson 8, and Vinga Andreasdaughter 11, was out and went with the family
dogs in the grove behind Sankt Olof (in the province of Scania, southernmost
Sweden).
It said "schwissssss", said Villmaron and shows with his arms how fast the
stone damp down, just a few meters in front of them.
"It was like smoke".
When the stone hit the ground, dust and smoke swirled up.
Villmaron first thought it was a branch that had fallen down, but the dog
Molly, that first got very scared, finally took courage, and sniffed her way
to the stone, situated in a hole a few inches down.
It was Molly who found it!
The stone is very black and full of holes. Looks like it was burnt of fire,
says Villmaron.
It almost looks like a piece of petrified lava says Villmarons father
Andreas Johansson.
The children immediately took the stone with them and run home. They were
very excited, says their mother Maja Larsson.
They talked in mouth of each other and told their parents that the rock fell
from the sky with a high velocity and how the gravel had whirled up and how
scared the dog had been. Then the kids run on to Grandma and Grandpa living
in the same village, in order to show them the stone too. When the children
had left, their mother Maja started to brood.
"First after a while it went up for me how lucky the children had been.
Imagine if anybody of them had been hit by the stone? It could have gone
really bad".
The first I found out to do was to call Ystads Allehanda (a local newspaper)
says Maja laughing.
Is it really a meteorite? Well the family is convinced that it is! At the
official web site of the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, we
learn that a meteorite will be magnetic.
Maja ties a refrigerator magnet to a sewing thread and holds the magnet next
to the stone. The magnet attracts directly to the stone. The shape and
colour also corresponds to the description of a meteorite at the National
Museum web site. Can it be of any worth wonder Maja tactfully?
But she rapidly concludes that this issue is not important. The stone will
be framed and hanged up on the wall, as a memory of an exceptionally event.
First the stone will be sent to the Swedish Museum of Natural History for
identification. If it's turns up to is genuine meteorite the story will be
even better!

The picture of the stone makes me a little bit suspicious. Has some
similarities to a piece of slag.
Happy hunting.

Thomas ?sterberg
Received on Sun 23 Aug 2009 02:43:25 PM PDT