[meteorite-list] New Orleans Meteorite

From: meteoritehunter_at_comcast.net <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 19 12:03:18 2004
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What do you mean not classified yet. It is classified, and is in the new Meteoritical Bulletin. I arranged Dr Bunch of NAU to work on it, which he did along with Rhian Jones in Albuquerque.
Mike Farmer


>
> Very nice piece Mark.
>
> I am offering some of the NO meteorite up for sale as well.
> Email me off-list if interested. Both small and larger
> pieces.
> Matt Morgan
> Mile High Meteorites
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces_at_meteoritecentral.com] On
> Behalf Of MARK BOSTICK
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:43 PM
> To: Meteorite List
> Subject: [meteorite-list] New Orleans Meteorite
>
>
> Hello List,
>
> Within a couple weeks the New Orleans meteorite will be
> making it's way to the market. The meteorite has not been
> classified yet, however it looks a lot like Bensour or
> Kilabo to me.
>
> I imagine this was posted to the list about a year ago, but
> the BBC did a really good job on its article, by just
> quoting the homeowner and not putting in any price
> speculation or untrue facts. So forgive me for reposting it,
> if that is the case.
>
> Here is a 64g fragment with sheetrock that was not water
> damaged.
>
> http://www.meteoritearticles.com/colneworleans.html
>
>
> Mark Bostick
>
>
>
>
>
> BBC News
>
> United Kingdom
>
> Date: Monday, October 6, 2003
>
> 'A meteorite smashed through my roof'
>
>
> The chances of being hit by a chunk of space rock are
> measured in the billions-to-one. Roy Fausset, 59, had the
> closest of escapes last month when what scientists now say
> was a meteorite crashed through his New Orleans home.
>
> "I walked through my front door and it was like a mortar
> bomb had fallen on my house.
>
> There was dust all over the floor of the entrance way and
> the two doors leading to a utility room and the powder room
> had been blown open.
>
> There was ceiling debris everywhere. I thought it must have
> been a broken pipe, but there was no water.
>
> As I was coming home, I'd noticed something on the roof, but
> had thought nothing of it. It turned out there was a hole
> the size of a basketball through the tiles.
>
> Whatever it was, it had passed through the attic, then my
> daughter's bedroom, through the powder room and into the
> crawl space under the floor.
>
> I thought it must have been some frozen waste that had
> fallen from a passenger airliner - they are carrying out
> improvements at our local airport, so planes have been
> diverted over our house.
>
> I called the police. An investigator went down into the
> crawl space and he found some rock fragments. There are no
> rocks in New Orleans, it's all silt. He said: 'It's a
> meteorite.'
>
> I took a sample over to the nearby Tulane University, where
> Stephen Nelson - the head of earth and environmental
> sciences department - examined it.
>
> He said the rock was rhyolite - which is found in Mexico and
> Texas. He thought it must have been thrown out of a plane by
> a vandal or become attached to a plane somehow and then
> fallen off.
>
> But now, after further analysis, it seems it has a profile
> consistent with that of a meteorite. The police investigator
> was right.
>
> I've collected up all the pieces. It's not a meteorite from
> Mars or Venus, which sell for $1,500 a gram. It probably
> came from an asteroid, so is only worth $3 - $10 a gram. It
> might help with the repairs.
>
> But I don't care about the money. I'm just very grateful
> that no one was injured. We really dodged the bullet. If
> anyone had been at home, they might have been killed. I
> think just hearing the noise would have caused me to expire.
>
>
> One of my neighbours was out in her yard with her children
> eating popsicles. They heard the impact and thought it was a
> car accident. If it had fallen 100 feet away, they could all
> have died.
>
> I've been very disorientated by the whole thing, especially
> when I consider what a narrow escape we all had and what
> could have happened.
>
> I keep asking: Why me? Maybe God was telling me something? I
> certainly went to church on Sunday and I will never mock Him
> as I did in my foolish youth.
>
>
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