[meteorite-list] Builders Find Possible Meteorite at Indiana Construction Site

From: Kevin Fly Hill <khill_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:17:43 2004
Message-ID: <001701c3bf50$812859a0$6d00a8c0_at_coxinternet.com>

"He believes the object burned its way into the material."

Here we go with those burning meteorites again

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Subject: [meteorite-list] Builders Find Possible Meteorite at Indiana
Construction Site


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> http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1558562%20&%20nav=0Ra7Jafg
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> Builders Find Possible Meteorite at Construction Site
> Associated Press
> December 10, 2003
>
> Two Shelby county home builders are trying to find out if a rock they
> found imbedded in foam insulation at a construction site could be a
> meteorite.
>
> Bob Weddle and his son Brian Weddle discovered the rock December first
> inside a stack of sheets of foam material left outside at a work site
> near Shelbyville. The rock was about four inches around and had a porous
> surface. It was about seven inches deep in the insulation.
>
> Bob Weddle says a rock would have bounced off. He believes the object
> burned its way into the material.
>
> Indiana University geologist Abhijit Basu says that's possible, if the
> rock is a meteorite. Another expert -- Carl Agee, director of the
> Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico -- says a
> meteorite would be more likely to pierce the foam than melt through it.
>
> The Weddles are trying to find an expert to confirm if what they found
> was a meteorite.
>
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> http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/2695269/detail.html
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> Rock Found In Home May Be Meteorite
>
> Rock Found In Insulation
> The Louisville Channel
> December 10, 2003
>
> SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- Two home builders were trying to find out if a rock
> they found imbedded in foam insulation at a construction site could be a
> meteorite.
>
> Builders Bob Weddle, 51, and his son Brian Weddle, 27, discovered the
> rock Dec. 1 inside a stack of sheets of foam material left outside at a
> work site near Shelbyville, about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis.
>
> The rock, which was about 4 inches around and had a porous surface, was
> about seven inches deep in the insulation.
>
> "If it fell into a field, I wouldn't have noticed anything about it,
> but it went through that foam," Bob Weddle said. "If you threw a rock
> at the foam, it'd bounce right off it. This burned its way through it."
>
> That's possible, said Abhijit Basu, a geologist at Indiana University. A
> meteor burning through the atmosphere is "more than red-hot; it's
> bluish-green hot," he said.
>
> Carl Agee, director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of
> New Mexico, said a meteorite would be more likely to crash through a
> stack of foam than melt through, however.
>
> Most meteor showers do not produce objects large enough to reach the
> ground, he said.
>
> The Weddles were trying to find an expert to confirm whether the rock
> was a meteorite.
>
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