[meteorite-list] Re: New Concord Meteorite, Hot and Cold Again

[AL Mitterling]

Hi Mark and list,

I find the statement below hard to believe, because of the time to reach 
the specimen and it being in moist soil. Perhaps the sun was shinning 
(according to Mark's other posts it was partly cloudy) and it had a 
chance to heat the black crust before the men reached it. Best!

--AL

MARK BOSTICK wrote:

> Paper: Banner of Liberty
> City: Middletown, New York
> Date: Wednesday, May 30, 1860
> Page: 1 (of 8)

Within about twenty minutes they approached and dug out the one which 
had fallen into the
field, where it had buried itself to the depth of about twenty inches in 
a stiff limestone
soil.  It was still so hot that it could scarcely be held in the hands.