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

From: Yinan Wang <veomega_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:29:39 -0500
Message-ID: <k2na4744b831004131429wee3584ai9af6cd4e7e233d90_at_mail.gmail.com>

"Then, on the bounce, it touches the Earth and becomes the Property of
The State."

So if a meteoroid embeds itself into your car, or you catch it before
it hits the ground (ya, improbable as it seems), or if bounces off a
cow and you catch it, does it belong to you now since it did not
become a meteorite?

- YvW

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Sterling K. Webb
<sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Any lawyer could argue his way out of this
> dilema with one simple slip. The "meteorite,"
> while falling, is a meteoroid, not a meteorite,
> hence it is under God's jurisdiction.
>
> You, your car, your house, your dead dog
> (or cow) are not the Earth. The meteorite only
> becomes a meteorite when it touches the
> Earth, after killing you, perforating your
> car, smashing your house, or killing your
> dog. Then, on the bounce, it touches the
> Earth and becomes the Property of The State.
>
> No harm, no fault. Hand it over, please.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message ----- From: <ensoramanda at ntlworld.com>
> To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Martin Altmann"
> <altmann at meteorite-martin.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not
> meteorite'
>
>
>> Interesting thought Martin...
>>
>> I wonder what their position would be regarding a meteorite (that belonged
>> to the state) hitting and injuring/killing somebody?
>>
>> Graham, UK
>>
>> ---- Martin Altmann <altmann at meteorite-martin.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> "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-----
>>> Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>>> [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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