[meteorite-list] Anyone remember this?

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:06:39 -0700
Message-ID: <4A044A7F.7000509_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Sucks that the media thinks you need a degree in something to be
qualified to talk intelligently about anything...

I wasn't really questioning whether it was a meteorite or not, I was
just a little curious how it actually got there and what it was... I'm
doing some research and knowing how this fell through a roof would be
cool to know.

Is that the one from the wood chipper story, or was it space debris,
airplane part, shrapnel from an explosion or some other weird thing?

Anyone got a link to a follow-up or conclusion?

Regards,
Eric




Darryl Pitt wrote:
>
> Obviously at the outset a meteorwrong....but somehow required months
> to establish after a team of scientists from Rutgers declared it was a
> meteorite.
>
> With no visual or sonic phenomena to accompany the low altitude
> explosion, which would have been the only explanation for such a shape
> and striated surface character without fusion crust, there was no way
> this was a meteorite. I vigorously pointed out to the local
> newspapers and Rutgers this couldn't possibly be a meteorite to no
> avail. I was on a live FOX radio show where they literally took me
> off the air after having called me to ask what I thought of the "new
> meteorite." When I pointed out that it was unlikely this was a
> meteorite, they pointed out "And you have a degree in what?" and upon
> my answer cut to a commercial and I was toast.
>
> Months after Rutgers put the object on display in their natural
> history museum---for which they attracted their largest crowds
> ever---it was publicly acknowledged the origin of this object was of
> earthly provenance.
>
>
>
> On May 8, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Meteorites USA wrote:
>
>> Does anyone remember or know what came of this?
>>
>> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070105-space-rock.html
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Eric Wichman
>> Meteorites USA
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