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

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:01:32 -0700
Message-ID: <20090616190132.MW8TU.417087.imail_at_fed1rmwml39>

In the photo his other hand also has a bandage on his thumb. Was this a meteor shower that hit him? Carl

---- lebofsky at lpl.arizona.edu wrote:
> The story was on the Mike Huckabee radio show this morning.
>
> No I do not normally listen to him if that thought crossed anyone's mind.
>
> Larry
>
> > Wow. This has gone from a side trip to WTFia to a full-blown
> > start-forwarding-the-mail experience. The behavior of the media doesn't
> > surprise me in the slightest, but up until now I thought the Bad Astronomy
> > guy was using that name in jest. Thanks for the update.
> >
> >
> > On 6/16/09 12:47 PM, "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <joshuatreemuseum at embarqmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/0667086000.jpg?t=1245180536
> >> http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/article-1192503-054F2E9500000
> >> 5DC-83.jpg?
> >> http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/SNN1235HH-380_823358a.jpg?t=1
> >> 245180707
> >> http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/article-1192503-054F2E9500000
> >> 5DC-34.jpg?
> >> http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z126/tboswell/_45916040_cen_meteoriteboy_03
> >> .jpg?t=1245180773
> >>
> >> Here are some pics from this story on our young P.T. Barnum which at
> >> last
> >> count had over 100 article links on Google News. I haven't read them
> >> all,
> >> they pretty much rehash the original story with some added
> >> embellishments.
> >> Incredibly, every single story I've read makes the same misquote:
> >> Ansgar Kortem, director of Germany's Walter Hohmann Observatory, said:
> >> "It's
> >> a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and
> >> scientists." According to the original German article, the actual
> >> quote
> >> is: " If it's a real meteorite, it's therefore very valuable to
> >> collectors
> >> and scientists". What a difference one word makes!
> >>
> >> It's almost as if not a single one of the journalists bothered to
> >> check
> >> the primary source story. Probably not surprising since it was in German
> >> and
> >> would require some effort to translate. More work than I'd want to do
> >> for
> >> $8 an hour (what I was offered to write for the South Bend , (IN)
> >> Tribune.)
> >>
> >> Anyway it's a fun story to follow, and I'm curious to see how the Susan
> >> Boyle of the meteorite world ends up. Probably more like the Octo Mom
> >> narrative.
> >>
> >> So, whaddya think, a carbonaceous chondrite, with black exterior and
> >> interior? I'm pretty sure the filled in pothole in front of the kid is
> >> supposed to be the impact crater. (LOL!)
> >>
> >> In all the stories, mention is given to only one person saying this is a
> >> Newtonian impossibility: Darryl Pitt who is given the role of voice in
> >> the
> >> wilderness by MSNBC in one of the earlier stories.
> >>
> >> Bad Astronomy's (Discover) Phil Plait believes that an exploding
> >> fireball
> >> increased the velocity of the pea sized stone (hasn't this theory been
> >> debunked on the List?) and that the kid's injury was from shrapnel from
> >> the
> >> asphalt crater. And he says this with a straight face! Phil got a
> >> little
> >> miffed at me for saying that no real astronomer would believe any part
> >> of
> >> this shaggy dog story.
> >>
> >> Phil Whitmer
> >>
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