[meteorite-list] odd stone, Baltimore area

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Apr 28 09:12:35 2004
Message-ID: <000b01c42ce1$9c43f6a0$9600000a_at_HAL>

Hi all,

Through our DMS website we got a mail including the following text:

"This sounds totally crazy, but I think I might have found a meteorite. The
other night there were reported Meteor Showers in the Baltimore area. The
next day my car window was smashed and lying on my seat was a small stone
less than one inch in size. There appears to be small crystals imbedded in
the stone. The car was parked in a remote area where, and based on the size
of the stone there is no way that a person could have thrown it at a car
window and totally smashed it. People I work with say I'm out of my mind,
that if it were a meteor it would have gone right through the car, etc. But
I just don't have any other explanation for this broken window and a
mysterious stone the night after meteor showers were reported in the area.
Please advise what I need to do or where I need to go to determine whether
this stone might me a meteor."

While this does not quite sound like a meteorite to me: anyone in the
Baltimore area willing to contact this person and check it out? Contact me
off-list for contact details.

- Marco

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Marco Langbroek
Leiden, the Netherlands
52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84)

e-mail: meteorites_at_dmsweb.org
website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek
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Received on Wed 28 Apr 2004 01:28:15 AM PDT