[meteorite-list] What is this?

From: plagioklas at arcor.de <plagioklas_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:07:21 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <1892511713.1804625.1371478041039.JavaMail.ngmail_at_webmail11.arcor-online.net>

Right. I wonder who the NASA scientist is, about whom the owner of the stone talked or whether he exists or not.

Seems to be some kind of new trend to let someone from the NASA verify unknown things. Maybe i should bring my old coins from flea market to one of the cooks from a NASA cantine to let him verify that these are from a antique romanian space capsule and thus worth alot. Then i tell i have verified it at NASA and they will sell well.
Alexander


----- Original Nachricht ----
Von: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
An: Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org>
Datum: 17.06.2013 14:57
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] What is this?

> I doubt any "rocks" were aboard the Mir space station:) So regardless of
> where it came down the whole story is idiotic.
> Michael Farmer
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 16, 2013, at 11:50 PM, Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Not buying it, at least not at face value. Quite literally "doesn't add
> up".
> >
> > It would have to survive at least another five orbits after Mir broke
> > up. And it would have been a very light piece. That's five orbits
> > AFTER its OBSERVED reentry!
> >
> > My simulation puts it within a few kilometers altitude of the US
> > Army's tracking on Kwajalein Atoll, so I figure I can't be too far
> > off, this is what the final track + 4 more orbits would have looked
> > like. Even in that last orbit, it would have to be pretty perturbed
> > to make it there! My atmospheric interface is based on archived
> > data, but out there, the data isn't fantastic -- hence the probable
> > reason I'm at 128km vs the actual 120km significant interface, and why I'm
> at 93km when
> > the US Army's observation is at 90km.
> >
> > If you told me it was found in Fiji, Australia, New Zealand - I'd
> > probably take a closer look at it. East Coast of the US? Psh. No.
> >
> > Here's my reentry model + 4 orbits
> > http://spaceballoon.org/mir-reentry.png
> >
> > --- Jodie
> >
> > Sunday, June 16, 2013, 9:39:41 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >> Hi List,
> >
> >> There is something about this object that doesn't seem to add up.
> >> The claim is that it is a "piece" of an old "Mir" space station.
> >>
> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/06/14/rock-found-in-amesbury-backyard-came-f
> rom-space-station/
> >> Comments?
> >
> >> Cordially,
> >
> >> Count Deiro
> >> IMCA 3536 MetSoc
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