[meteorite-list] Meteorite Found in Ohio?

From: Rob Wesel <nakhladog_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Dec 1 16:19:40 2004
Message-ID: <010001c4d7eb$9be6b110$46d5a943_at_robewcufk0z2s3>

And perhaps Phyllis Rice should start wishing for ponies before someone gets
hurt

Rob Wesel
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and we are the dreamers of the dreams.
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From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Found in Ohio?


>
>
> http://www.coshoctontribune.com/news/stories/20041201/localnews/1678211.html
>
> A local star gazer finds a fallen star
> By Jim Konkoly
> Coshocton Tribune (Ohio)
> December 1, 2004
>
> COSHOCTON -- For the second time in her life, a falling star has come
> within a few yards of Phyllis Rice.
>
> "My heavens," she said last week when Coshocton High School science
> teacher Dan Zielinski examined the unusual rock she had found lodged in
> the screen of her patio door.
>
> Zielinski confirmed what Rice suspected.
>
> During the last meteor shower on the nights of Nov. 15 and 16, a small
> falling star hit the home of Phyllis and her husband Larry Rice at 1921
> Adams Street.
>
> About a half inch in diameter, black on one side and a rusty, burnt
> orange color on the other, this rock has all the characteristics of a
> meteorite, said Zielinski, who teaches astronomy and other sciences at
> the high school and directs the planetarium at Central Elementary School.
>
> "I'm not the expert on meteorites," he added. "But I can say it's highly
> likely that this is a meteorite, a falling star, based on the texture
> and the color, and the angle of impact on the screen."
>
> For many years, Phyllis has enjoyed watching meteor showers, a hobby she
> began when daughters Lori and Sharon were growing up.
>
> "We'd take sleeping bags and lay them down on the deck so we could keep
> watch on the sky," she said.
>
> While she's seen many shooting stars streak across the night sky over
> the years, Phyllis didn't see the one that fell on her house.
>
> On the last night of the recent meteor shower, she checked the night sky
> occasionally up until midnight and then gave up when she hadn't seen any
> celestial activity. The next morning she discovered the unusual rock
> stuck in her screen door.
>
> Phyllis thinks the remnant of a shooting star would make a great object
> for one of her younger grandchildren to take to school for show and tell.
>
> For sure, it brought back a happy childhood memory for her.
>
> "When I was small, about 10 or 11, my mother and I were walking on North
> Eighth Street, and we saw a shooting star fall to the ground right in
> front of us," she said.
>
> Meteors are not rare, Zielinski said.
>
> "(On average), a shooting star occurs every eight seconds somewhere in
> the world," he said. But finding a meteorite is far from a common
> occurrence.
>
> "When I first saw it," Phyllis recalled, "I said, 'What in the world is
> this?'"
>
> Based on Zielinski's expertise, she learned that, almost certainly, it
> came from out of this world.
>
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