[meteorite-list] Meteor Reported in Australia

[martinh at isu.edu]

Mike Farmer wondered: 
"I think it would be extremely rare anyway, but with an odd shaped meteorite, and a hard one like an iron, when it slows down enough, I would think that the air can easily force it to rotate and spin."

Hi All,

I remember reading about a meteorite that fell through the trunk of a car in Japan a number of years ago. The meteorite was spinning and as it punched through the metal of the trunk lid, it was scored or somehow marked with a screw-thread pattern that was later used to hypothesize about the spin rate of the falling stone.

Anyone else remember this and know more about it? 

Martin