[meteorite-list] Anyone remember this?

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:53:51 -0400
Message-ID: <7CCB9F5D-2D73-4A35-9A9F-8AEF83DF7BBD_at_dof3.com>

Yes, there was a steel mill nearby and a wood-chipper component to
this story. Mike Fowler of this list who is expert in such matters
brought this notion to light.

I might also mention that Eric Twelker had expressed his doubts to the
same New York Times reporter with whom I had spoken, and he reached
out to the lead scientist and warned the object wasn't a meteorite, to
which the scientist at Rutgers tersely responded, "Get your facts
straight."

Indeed.

As Mike had pointed out, the guys operating the hypothetical chipper
wouldn't be inclined to come forward. Rutgers also had no interest in
determining the true origin of the object or just how earthly it was.

.





On May 8, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Meteorites USA wrote:

> 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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>
>
> --
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> Eric Wichman
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Received on Fri 08 May 2009 11:53:51 AM PDT