[meteorite-list] ECC students study not a meteorite

From: michael cottingham <mikewren_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 22:12:38 -0700
Message-ID: <601F3720-A089-4FEC-870D-205A421BEF12_at_gilanet.com>

Does a chondrite have that many wholes in it?? Hard to see in photo,
but it does not remind me of any meteorite?

Michael
On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:57 PM, Darren Garrison wrote:

> Gotta see the photo.
>
> http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/community/ecc-students-study-meteorite-526043.html
>
> ECC students study meteorite
>
> Contributed to the Telegram
>
> Thursday, April 02, 2009
>
> An Edgecombe Community College astronomy class experienced hands-on
> learning
> recently when they analyzed a meteorite found by a local farmer.
>
> Students in Descriptive Astronomy, taught by Rebecca Stamilio,
> examined a
> 146-pound meteorite that fell into a local farmer?s field.
>
> He discovered the meteorite when he was plowing his land last year.
> The big rock
> sliced his disk in half.
>
> ?There are three classes of meteorites, and we think this is a
>
> stone meteorite,? said Stamilio, who is a physics and industrial
> trades
> instructor at the college. Stone meteorites are the largest group of
> meteorites,
> and they once formed part of the outer crust of a planet or asteroid.
>
> The class measured the meteorite and discussed its different features.
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Received on Fri 03 Apr 2009 01:12:38 AM PDT