[meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Boy?

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:36:23 -0700
Message-ID: <4A366A77.3070403_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Hi Martin,

Thanks again for the link...

This story is running rampant across the whole internet. You can't surf
the web without running into this story. And worse... It's all merely
the same thing being repeated and retold all over the web from the
original story. No verification, no reliable test results, and no fact
checking at all. Just rampant rumor... It's dumb that people can't find
out what really happened before posting this story all over. Even
Discovery magazine posted something about it, though in a debunking sort
of way. Normally I would have posted an article on my site about this by
now on something this significant, but without any verification it's
pointless.

Jeez, if it's real then I'm totally stoked! This would be an historical
event to say the least. But either way someone needs to do some
investigation and post the truth about it regardless of what that truth
turns out to be. Too bad I don't speak German, I'd be all over this story!

Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA


Martin Altmann wrote:
> Ja but they're changing the story to make it more interesting.
>
> Read from U.K.
>
> "Chemical tests on the rock have now proved it is from outer space.
>
> Ansgar Korte, director of Germany's Walter Hohmann Observatory, said: "It's
> a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and
> scientists."
>
>
> And here is the original, they're referring to:
>
> http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/essen/2009/6/9/news-122291315/de
> tail.html
>
>
> Where Korte is quoted:" If it's really a true meteorite, then the specimen
> will have a certain value for collectors and mineralogists"
>
> And in the following he recommends places, where the stone could be tested,
> whether it is a meteorite.
>
>
> That story of course is rubbish.
> A prank, not more.
>
> Martin
>
> Btw. it seems to be a boy...
>
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> Meteorites USA
> Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 19:20
> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Girl? Boy?
>
> Hi Listees,
>
> The story has gone worldwide fast... The reports are merely repeating
> what the original report stated and from what I can see there is no
> verification...
>
> Skeptical? Is anyone else researching this? Maybe one of our German
> friends on-list might lend a hand and call the local paper there that
> first broke the story and see if they can get an interview with the boy
> to help confirm or verify what actually happened?
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo News UK:
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090612/tod-boy-hit-by-meteorite-travelling-at-3
> -870a197.html
>
> Space.com:
> http://www.space.com/news/090612-boy-hit-by-meteorite.html
>
> FoxNews.com
> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525992,00.html
>
>
> SkyNews.com
> http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Boy-Hit-On-Arm-By-White-Hot-Mete
> orite-From-Outer-Space-Travelling-At-30000mph/Article/200906215302251?lpos=W
> orld_News_First_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15302251_
> Boy_Hit_On_Arm_By_White-Hot
> <http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Boy-Hit-On-Arm-By-White-Hot-Met
> eorite-From-Outer-Space-Travelling-At-30000mph/Article/200906215302251?lpos=
> World_News_First_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15302251
> _Boy_Hit_On_Arm_By_White-Hot>
>
> Daily Telegraph: Australia
> http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25625253-5012895,00.html
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Has there been confirmation yet? If... And this is a BIG IF. If this is
> a real story and th boy really did get hit with a meteorite there could
> be more meteorite on th ground. This would be a very famous fall to
> recover if it turns out to be verifiable!
>
> Can anyone confirm?
>
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
>
>
>
>
> Meteorites USA wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This just in...
>>
>> Two German news sites report a 14 year old was hit by a meteorite.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> "...A pebble-sized meteorite crashed and burned into Earth, grazing
>> 14-year-old Gerritt Blank while on his way to catch the school bus..."
>>
>> Meteor hits boy on way to school
>> Published: 11 Jun 09 11:46 CET
>>
>> ?At first, I only saw a big, white ball of light. Then, my hand hurt,
>> and then it slammed into the street,? he told daily /Westdeutsche
>> Allgemeine Zeitung/. ?After I saw the white light, I felt something on
>> my hand.?
>>
>> The result was a 10-centimetre burn on the back of his left hand, but
>> Blank knew something special had happened to him.
>>
>> ?I thought the meteor struck me, but it could also be a result from
>> the heat as it went by me,? he said.
>>
>> After the intial shock, Blank looked at the glowing rock the left a
>> sizable crater in Brakeler Wald Street. He then took the iced tea from
>> his school lunch and doused his glowing pebble and took it to school
>> with him.
>>
>> ?At school, I told the story. My classmates believed me,? he said. His
>> parents didn?t get to hear the story until the end of the school day.
>>
>> Once home, Blank, who plans to focus his studies in science, tested
>> the round, black object and already found some confirmation the pebble
>> is from outer space: like many meteorites, the rock is magnetic.
>>
>> Approximately 3,000 meteorites hit the Earth?s surface daily.
>>
>> SOURCE: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090611-19857.html
>>
>> -------------------------------------------
>>
>> Another site reports:
>>
>> SPACE ATTACK Girl hit by stone from sky
>>
>> SPACE ATTACK. The girl shows the spot where the stone fell.
>> A girl from Essen, Germany has been hit by a stone falling from the
>> sky. The 14-year old said: ?I was on my way to school. I saw a white
>> cone of light. Then my hand started hurting.? The stone made a 10cm
>> cut in her hand and then fell to the ground. ?I poured ice tea over it
>> and took it with me,? she said. But where did the stone come from?
>> Could it be a meteorite? Experts will have to explain.
>>
>> SOURCE:
>>
>>
> http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-
> ticker/world/2009/06/11/stone-falling-from-space-hits-girl.html
>
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> So is it a boy or a girl? And what is the stone that hit them?
>>
>> Anyone else have any info?
>>
>>
>
>
>
Received on Mon 15 Jun 2009 11:36:23 AM PDT