[meteorite-list] Rock Hunters Still Canvassing Northern CaliforniaFor Meteorites

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 10:45:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1351791931.957.YahooMailClassic_at_web39303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

No, it's even funnier than you worded it.
They misquoted me as saying that " it was FLOATING
around Jupiter before the Earth ever formed."
;-)
Bob V.

--- On Thu, 11/1/12, dorifry <dorifry at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> From: dorifry <dorifry at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Rock Hunters Still Canvassing Northern CaliforniaFor Meteorites
> To: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>, "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Cc: "Marc Fries" <fries at psi.edu>
> Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 9:16 AM
> I like the part about asteroids
> orbiting Jupiter before the Earth formed!
>
> Phil Whitmer
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser at yahoo.com>
> To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Cc: "Marc Fries" <fries at psi.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 12:56 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Rock Hunters Still Canvassing
> Northern CaliforniaFor Meteorites
>
>
> > http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2012/10/30/rock-hunters-still-canvassing-northern-california-for-meteorites/
> >
> > With the threat of rain in the Novato area, desperate
> measures needed to be taken, so we went back to soliciting
> the locals to look for space-rocks in their driveways and
> yards -
> > via the local TV news stations:
> >
> > Rock Hunters Still Canvassing Northern California For
> Meteorites
> > October 30, 2012 6:47 PM
> > View Comments
> >
> > Reporting Neda Iranpour
> > Filed under
> > Local, News, Seen On, Syndicated Local
> >
> > NOVATO (CBS13) ? A light show hard to forget brought
> out rock hunters who are still canvassing Northern
> California days after the asteroid came crashing down.
> >
> > There are all kinds of rocks in parking lots and gravel
> in fields so how do they know what a meteorite is? Well,
> they say to look for something that stands out.
> >
> > It may look like a tar ball to us earthlings, but
> according to meteorite hunter Bob Verish, it?s a cosmic
> gem.
> >
> > ?It shows a history of having had some catastrophic
> collision in the asteroid belt,? he said.
> >
> > It?s a rock so foreign, so ancient, he says it was
> floating around Jupiter before the Earth ever formed.
> > Rock Hunters Still Canvassing Northern California For
> Meteorites
> >
> > Bob Verish found this space ball worth about $10,000
> while searching the Novato area in Marin County. (credit:
> CBS13)
> >
> > Two weeks ago, a big, bright flash danced across the
> sky, sending a glow show across half the state.
> >
> > ?We don?t get many falls like this in
> California,? he said.
> >
> > As impressive as it was when it crashed, that?s also
> why it?s so difficult to find its 4.5-billion-year-old
> parts.
> >
> > ?It came in at a lower angle. It spread out the
> stone,? he said.
> >
> > Only four pieces have been found in Novato and
> they?re worth $100 per gram. Bob?s weighs in at about
> 100, making it a $10,000 rock.
> >
> > It?s a true treasure for a man who once sent NASA
> probes to outer space. Now he?s probing this planet for
> galactic goods.
> >
> > If it jumps to his magnet, he says it?s likely out of
> this world. Bob?s now convinced there are larger pieces to
> this puzzle in Novato.
> >
> > ?We try not to think about the fact that it?s worse
> than a needle in a haystack,? he said.
> >
> > After searching several square miles, he?s convinced
> larger rocks are lurking.
> >
> > The search seems difficult and endless. They also have
> to speed it up because every time it rains, they lose some
> evidence and so people like bob are racing against the
> clock. There?s another storm on the way.
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