[meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:28:57 -0700
Message-ID: <BLU125-W17C3DF800EBA27821EAB32C9110_at_phx.gbl>

 
    Hi Martin,
 
  I thought the last two lines in your email were great:
 
 "Other question, would WA Government have paid the fixing of the roof, if it would have been a meteorite?
I mean, then the damage would have caused by a property of the state,wouldn't it?"
 
  Good point....I had to laugh at that one!
 
 
  Greg
 
 
 


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> From: altmann at meteorite-martin.de
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:29:58 +0200
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'
>
> "A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are
> meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
>
> Because those people finding real meteorites, lunars and Martians aren't
> coming to Australia. :-(
>
> Why?
>
> Because: "if it was
> a meteor it belongs to the WA Government".
>
>
> Other question, would WA Government have paid the fixing of the roof, if it
> would have been a meteorite?
> I mean, then the damage would have caused by a property of the state,
> wouldn't it?
>
> Martin
>
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Jeff
> Kuyken
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. April 2010 16:35
> An: meteorite list
> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock,not
> meteorite'
>
> http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/museum-investigates-meteori
> te-claims/story-e6frg1ac-1225837470139
>
> Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'
>
>
> SCIENTISTS investigating claims a meteor fragment the size of a cricket ball
>
> collided into a WA house have confirmed it was almost certainly a rock. The
> object hit the roof of the home about 4pm on Thursday in the north-eastern
> Perth suburb of Beechboro.
>
> A female occupant thought it was a meteor.
>
> The WA Museum today said the object may have fallen from a plane lowering
> its landing gear.
>
> The museum's head of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Dr Alex Bevan, yesterday
> inspected the object, which he did not suspect was from outer space.
>
> "Alex did have a look at some photos of the object, but when he did look at
> it in person, he did not think it was from a meteorite," a museum
> spokesperson said.
>
> "Sometimes rocks get caught in the wheels of planes and as they are lowering
>
> their gear they may fall, we just don't know."
>
> Perth Observatory said it had received a "couple of reports" on Thursday
> night from people phoning to say they had seen a light in the sky.
>
> "At this stage no one seems to be able to put it all together, but if it was
>
> a meteor it belongs to the WA Government, observatory astronomer Ralph
> Martyn said.
>
> "The reports at this stage are very sketchy."
>
> He said the observatory was waiting to inspect a photograph of the object.
>
> "A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are
> meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
>
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