[meteorite-list] New Meteorite from Turlock, CA?

[Göran Axelsson]

I was almost writing that reply myself a while ago.

In the picture you see the size of it in their hand and I would have 
guessed it
should be about a kg (don't know what that is in ounces...) if it were a 
meteorite.
And it was still warm and smoke came out of the largest one... I would have
guessed on dog droppings but they ruled that out. So my second guess is to
see if the neighbours had a failed barbeque last night.   ;-)

Sounds more like a hoax than a meteorite.

    :-)

/Göran


Matson, Robert wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Don't have to read beyond this line:
>
>"The biggest piece weighs 137 grams, or about 4.5 ounces, and
>is the size of a grapefruit."
>
>Ignoring for the moment that 137 grams is not 4.5 ounces, that would
>still have to be one small grapefruit.  They chose the word "grapefruit",
>not orange, so clearly they meant a stone larger than an orange.
>
>But even if we choose a "dwarf" grapefruit diameter of 6 cm, the
>volume would be 113 cm^3, giving a specific gravity of ~1.2.  Consider
>your own collections:  think how heavy a grapefruit-sized chondrite
>*should* be!  --Rob
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