[meteorite-list] Anyone remember this?

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:58:37 -0800
Message-ID: <20091107135837.ERBMG.76144.imail_at_fed1rmwml39>

Darryl, List,
I just came across this in my old mail and have a question.
I know you are an expert so, obviously you knew it was not a meteorite by sight.
So, the question is this. Since we know now that It was determined to be space debris from a pervious space mission and I believe they called it stainless steel. Would it not still have a great value because it was once in space? And shouldn't it still have fusion crust? Why does it not? Where is the fusion crust? Is it possible that some metal meteorites do not have fusion crusts? I would love to see the analysis of this space rock. It seems to me this should argue against a "must have" for fusion crust. Is this not the observed science here ? And are we supposed to ignore the science? This thing crashed through a roof and caused significant damage. Do you have any inside knowledge of what ever happened to the rock? Thanks Carl

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Carl or Debbie Esparza
(520) 979-9865
Meteoritemax
---- Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> 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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