[meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says He Was Nearly Hit By Meteorite

[Walter Branch]

Hello Everyone,

I just hope hollywood never stops making meteorite
impact movies with exploding stones that glow red
hot and leave smoke trains that whiz by people's
heads.  Makes it all the more easier to tell the real
thing from this stuff.


-Walter Branch
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From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Nebraska Man Says He Was Nearly Hit By Meteorite


>
> http://www.theomahachannel.com/news/4672177/detail.html
>
> Fairbury Man Says He Was Nearly Hit By Meteorite
>
> NU Professors Examining Rock
> The Omaha Channel (Nebraska)
> June 30, 2005
>
> FAIRBURY, Neb. -- A Fairbury man was watering his yard last week when he
> had a very rare and close encounter with a possible meteorite.
>
> Brad Kinzie was out watering his yard in the wee hours of the morning
> Saturday -- trying to avoid the hottest period of the day -- when an
> object whizzed by his head and landed.
>
> "It came over my head, probably, about a foot and a half. I could feel
> the breeze," Kinzie said. "It was silver and it kind of had red and
> black on the back of it and smoke."
>
> The object landed about 65 feet from where Kinzie was watering.
>
> "I stood ... here looking at it, 'cause it was still glowing. I says,
> 'Wow,'" Kinzie said.
>
> Kinzie left it there to cool off, and made two wishes on his falling star.
>
> "One of my wishes came true. My oldest brother wasn't speaking to my
> sister for two years. They got back together," he said.
>
> Kinzie is checking with University of Nebraska astronomy professors to
> see if it is a real meteorite. If it is, Kinzie is in very rare company.
> The chances of this close of an encounter are one in 100 billion, expert
> said..
>
> "I just been busy, people calling me on the phone," Kinzie said.
>
> Kinzie wouldn't say what his second wish is. After all, he said, it
> hasn't come true yet.
>
> "Only once in a 100 billion years, and it will probably never happen to
> me again," he said.
>
> Kinzie said if it is a meteorite, he will probably sell it. Collectors
> have been known to pay thousands of dollars for rare meteorites.
>
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