[meteorite-list] Re: Spanish Meteorite?

From: Michael Farmer <farmerm_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:01:33 2004
Message-ID: <015901c212aa$dd632dc0$5ad00140_at_computer>

So we are talking about a completely different event. The one in Madrid was
downtown, hit a blue BMW ( I saw the photos and the meteorite, a ~900 gram
complete stone H5 like.
Mike Farmer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert Raab" <herbert.raab_at_utanet.at>
To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:05 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Spanish Meteorite?


>
> Hello List,
>
> Walter Branch writes:
> > I have an astronomy textbook (Voyages Through the Universe,
> > Fraknoi, Morrison, and Wolf, 1997) in which a meteorite is
> > reported to have struck a car and the driver.
> ...
> > Did the curator verify the date, June, 1999?
>
> The really interesting question is this: How can a astronomy
> textbook from 1997 report on a meteorite fall from June 1999...?
>
> So I think that the book refers to the controversial event of
> June 21, 1994, when a 1.4kg stone hit a car that was driving
> down the road from Madrid to Marbella. However, many more small
> stones of the same type were found around the impact site, and
> these stones have later been identified as a piece of slag.
> There were some reports on that in Sky & Telescope in 1994/95.
>
> Best greetings,
> Herbert
>
>
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