[meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (wasTemperature of meteorites)

From: Mark Grossman <markig_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:15:17 -0500
Message-ID: <A14BA68B46C44917BC3B3E5922BD2426_at_QED>

Not saying the chemical was present at the site of the fall, but the scent
of new mown hay is a description for the odor of phosgene, an extremely
toxic gas which contains chlorine and oxygen, but not sulfur, and which was
used as a chemical warfare agent in WWI.

Mark

Mark Grossman
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510

----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Paulson" <murray.paulson at gmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (wasTemperature
of meteorites)


>A friend of mine is having problems posting to the list, so I am
> trying to do that for him...
>
> M Paulson
> ______________________________________________________
> From: Brian Moore
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:55 PM
> To: 'meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com'
> Subject: sulphurous smell of meteorites
>
> Dear List:
>
> When Murray Paulson and I came across the fellow who found the 7 kg
> Buzzard Coulee there was a distinct smell, to me at least. There was a
> hint of something sulphurous but more kind of a organic swampy smell.
> Then for some reason a scent of new-mown hay popped into my mind.
>
> We came about 10 minutes after the meteorite had been pulled out the
> shallow hole it had created.
> Murray took a picture and I took down the GPS coordinates.
>
> For a great picture of the event see Bruce McCurdy's Buzzard web site:
> skyriver.ca/astro/bruce/meteorite.htm
>
> This was 12 days after the meteor fell in frozen winter conditions.
>
>
> -Brian Moore
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