[meteorite-list] "Falling Stars" Book Correction/Nakhla Meteorites

From: Mark Fox <unclefireballmtf_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:52 2004
Message-ID: <20020128011958.81573.qmail_at_web14904.mail.yahoo.com>

January 27, 2002

Greetings Mr. Ron Baalke and Fellow Meteorite
Enthusiasts!

I just looked in the book "Rocks From Space" which
confirms your correction. Sorry for the mistake.

Long strewn fields.

Mark Fox
Newaygo, MI USA
 
--- Ron Baalke <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > By the way, why doesn't someone ask Mr. Robert
> > Haag for information about his hunts for Nakhla
> > meteorites in Egypt? A good chance he may know a
> > lot about what transpired there during the time of
> > the meteorite fall.
>
> He did visit El Nakhla. I don't think he searched
> Denshal for meteorites, but I bet he would have
> had he known all of the facts concerning the fall.
>
> > His expedition is mentioned in the famous book
> > "Rocks From Space", and I recall Mr. Haag
> > interviewing an old man that almost was supposedly
> > struck by one of the Martian stones! Thus, Mr.
> > Haag may know of previously uninterviewed > >
witnesses.
> >
>
> I think your confusing this with the Zagami
> meteorite fall, another Mars meteorite which fill
> in Nigeria in 1962. In this case, the meteorite
> fell near the farmer while he was tending his
> field. Bob did talk to the farmer about the Zagami
> fall later on.
>
> Ron Baalke


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Received on Sun 27 Jan 2002 08:19:58 PM PST