[meteorite-list] weird spanish meteorite/slag

From: rochette <rochette_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:01:33 2004
Message-ID: <v04003a0ab92e2d169d8f_at_[193.49.98.39]>

Dear list

there is a PhD thesis just finishing on this stone (Getafe) in Madrid
museum. So we should have more news in the near future. If it is a
meteorite it is an extremely weird one, the closest could be d'Orbigny (no
chondrules, not magnetic, lot of large bubbles). The C14 data seems to
imply industrial origin but on the other hand various features do not fit
with common slag, in particular the testimony of the car driver (the stone
hit while he was driving in open country without any trucks, bridge, cliff,
people etc. around) who seems to be a reasonable person...


Pierre
Received on Thu 13 Jun 2002 07:27:57 AM PDT