[meteorite-list] Couple Find Possible Meteorite in Their Yard inCalifornia?

From: Jerry <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:05:08 -0500
Message-ID: <874245E4C6B746278D9BDE24CE13815F_at_Notebook>

slag maybe but definitely not meteoric
Jerry Flaherty
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Couple Find Possible Meteorite in Their Yard
inCalifornia?


>
> http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/green_4266___article.html/meteorite_piece.html
>
> Piece of the heavens
> Couple find possible meteorite in their yard
> By PATRICK THATCHER
> Victorville Daily Press
> December 31, 2007
>
> It's not everyday that a little piece of the heavens drops right into
> your front yard, just inches from your front door.
>
> That's what Kay and Rick Green of Hesperia believe happened to them.
>
> "We are pretty sure it is a meteorite," Green said. "I've seen them at
> gun shows and this looks like those. We had been walking right past it
> for a couple of days before we even noticed it sticking just a little
> bit above the ground."
>
> Green had recently filled in a hole at the location where the supposed
> meteorite had landed and, although he noticed something just barely
> peeking above the ground, he and his wife didn't think anything of it at
> first.
>
> Then he decided to dig it up.
>
> "I thought it was a tiny piece. I was surprised to see how big it was."
>
> What he dug up was a solid piece of material about the size of a head of
> cabbage, bearing the characteristics of a meteorite. Green put it on a
> scale, and it weighed a little more than 5 pounds.
>
> Without using expert analysis but referring to Web sites that are used
> for meteorite identification, Green determined that the object that
> landed in his yard has a number of meteorite characteristics, most
> notably a strong magnetic pull. Other characteristics are its heavy
> weight for its size, its coloring and contours.
>
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