[meteorite-list] 22 Years Ago Today: Peekskill Meteorite Hit Car

From: almitt2 at localnet.com <almitt2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 06:11:56 -0400
Message-ID: <20141010061156.kzuyzfc376yucoks_at_webmail.localnet.com>

Hi Ron and all,

Good post on the Peekskill! Besides the piece that hit the car, two
other fragments also fell. Neither of which have been located. Some
speculation that they may have landed in the ocean or body of water
further to the east.

The Car was purchased by AL Lang, a long time meteorite dealer. He and
a small consortium of dealers and one collector also bought the
meteorite. A number of slices were taken from the meteorite and are on
display at museums, as well in private collections.

Seems like it was just yesterday.

--AL Mitterling
Mitterling Meteorites


Quoting Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>:

>
>
> http://ehstoday.com/environment/throwback-thursday-there-was-no-way-prevent-famous-fall
>
> Throwback Thursday: There Was No Way to Prevent this Famous Fall
>
> Thousands of people in the eastern United States saw and heard the greenish
> Peekskill meteorite as it flashed through the night sky, and one witness
> said that it crackled like a very loud sparkler."
>
> Josh Cable
> EHS Today
> October 9, 2014
>
> On Oct. 9, 1992, a meteorite hurtled through space, streaked into the
> earth's atmosphere and - by the hand of fate - smashed into the trunk
> of a 1980 Chevy Malibu in Peekskill, N.Y.
>
> All accidents and injuries are preventable, as the popular saying goes.
> But sometimes - despite our best efforts to live safely - the universe
> throws a curveball that we never saw coming.
>
> On Oct. 9, 1992, that proverbial curveball was a meteorite that hurtled
> through space, streaked into the earth's atmosphere and - by the hand
> of fate - smashed into the trunk of a 1980 Chevy Malibu in Peekskill,
> N.Y. The meteorite plunged to the earth in a dazzling fireball, startling
> fans at a high school football game and slamming into the Chevy Malibu
> at 164 mph.
>
> According to the History Channel's website:
>
> "On this day in 1992, 18-year-old Michelle Knapp is watching television
> in her parents' living room in Peekskill, N.Y., when she hears a thunderous
> crash in the driveway. Alarmed, Knapp ran outside to investigate. What
> she found was startling, to say the least: a sizeable hole in the rear
> end of her car, an orange 1980 Chevy Malibu; a matching hole in the gravel
> driveway underneath the car; and in the hole, the culprit: what looked
> like an ordinary, bowling-ball-sized rock. It was extremely heavy for
> its size (it weighed about 28 pounds), shaped like a football and warm
> to the touch; also, it smelled vaguely of rotten eggs. The next day, a
> curator from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City
> confirmed that the object was a genuine meteorite."
>
> Thousands of people in the eastern United States saw and heard the greenish
> Peekskill meteorite as it flashed through the night sky, and one witness
> "said that it crackled like a very loud sparkler," according to history.com.
>
> Scientists later concluded that the Peekskill meteorite was a fragment
> of a larger stone that broke as it entered Earth's atmosphere. Knapp's
> driveway was the final stop on a harrowing journey that began in the main
> asteroid belt in space, between Jupiter and Mars.
>
> Fortunately, no one was injured, and the story had a happy ending for
> Knapp: She sold the Malibu - which she'd just bought for $300 - to a
> meteorite
> collector for $10,000.
>
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