[meteorite-list] Possible Meteorwrong

From: Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum <dorifry_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:52:31 -0400
Message-ID: <25E51920F1774EE8BAA85DA17D01B321_at_terryPC>

Dave,

That's good to know. I figured a meteorite would weather faster than that in
Indiana's wet climate with cold winters.

Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Myers
To: Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Possible Meteorwrong


Hi Phil,

it was confirmed by Ted Bunch that my two stones found in Butler county ohio
are meteorites, L-6, W-3,S-2 and he said they fell thousands of years ago.
So they do not
weather away as fast as people think. He said to do an exact age would cost
to much.

This Indiana stone does look like it could be a meteorite. The out side
surface of this stone
does not look like my two stones though. The out side of mine is weathered
yellow brown
and weathered about a quarter inch deep into the larger stones surface.


dave


From: Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum <dorifry at embarqmail.com>
To: meteorite list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2013 12:38 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible Meteorwrong


I was sent these pictures of a possible meteorite find in southern
Indiana.It's hard to tell from the blurry pictures, but it looks like iron
oxide. A geologist told them it was a meteorite because it attracts a magnet
and has chondrule like formations. I was told it had flakes of metal but I
couldn't see them in the photos.

Any ideas?

There's another guy in southern Indiana who believes he found another piece
of Harrison County, an L6 that fell in 1859. Wouldn't that be pretty much
eroded away by now, even if it was shocked like NWA 869?

Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum


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