[meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'

From: Warren Sansoucie <warren3174_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:33:13 -0500
Message-ID: <BAY132-W29C2625EB04B2F1A91160AD3110_at_phx.gbl>

They would call it an 'Act Of God".
 
Warren Sansoucie
 

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> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:31:44 +0100
> From: ensoramanda at ntlworld.com
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com; altmann at meteorite-martin.de
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'
>
> Interesting thought Martin...
>
> I wonder what their position would be regarding a meteorite (that belonged to the state) hitting and injuring/killing somebody?
>
> Graham, UK
>
> ---- Martin Altmann wrote:
>> "A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are
>> meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
>>
>> Because those people finding real meteorites, lunars and Martians aren't
>> coming to Australia. :-(
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> Because: "if it was
>> a meteor it belongs to the WA Government".
>>
>>
>> Other question, would WA Government have paid the fixing of the roof, if it
>> would have been a meteorite?
>> I mean, then the damage would have caused by a property of the state,
>> wouldn't it?
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Jeff
>> Kuyken
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. April 2010 16:35
>> An: meteorite list
>> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock,not
>> meteorite'
>>
>> http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/museum-investigates-meteori
>> te-claims/story-e6frg1ac-1225837470139
>>
>> Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'
>>
>>
>> SCIENTISTS investigating claims a meteor fragment the size of a cricket ball
>>
>> collided into a WA house have confirmed it was almost certainly a rock. The
>> object hit the roof of the home about 4pm on Thursday in the north-eastern
>> Perth suburb of Beechboro.
>>
>> A female occupant thought it was a meteor.
>>
>> The WA Museum today said the object may have fallen from a plane lowering
>> its landing gear.
>>
>> The museum's head of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Dr Alex Bevan, yesterday
>> inspected the object, which he did not suspect was from outer space.
>>
>> "Alex did have a look at some photos of the object, but when he did look at
>> it in person, he did not think it was from a meteorite," a museum
>> spokesperson said.
>>
>> "Sometimes rocks get caught in the wheels of planes and as they are lowering
>>
>> their gear they may fall, we just don't know."
>>
>> Perth Observatory said it had received a "couple of reports" on Thursday
>> night from people phoning to say they had seen a light in the sky.
>>
>> "At this stage no one seems to be able to put it all together, but if it was
>>
>> a meteor it belongs to the WA Government, observatory astronomer Ralph
>> Martyn said.
>>
>> "The reports at this stage are very sketchy."
>>
>> He said the observatory was waiting to inspect a photograph of the object.
>>
>> "A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are
>> meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
>>
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