[meteorite-list] Old news reports: true or untrue?

[tracy latimer]

I vote for calling it the "Mythbusters" thread.  Reports can either be "confirmed", "plausible", or "busted".
 
Tracy Latimer> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:31:16 -0700> From: bolidechaser at yahoo.com> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> Subject: [meteorite-list] Buck Mountains 003> > We read here on the List of many news-accounts and> other second-hand stories about meteorites finds and> suspect falls (i.e., the "NJO" and the Rhode Island> archeology find, etc.) but we rarely if ever get any> resolution to these - originally highly publicized,> and now all but forgotten accounts. This lack of> finality must be frustrating to those Listees who> followed closely those events.> > Well, here's an old news-account that now has finally> come to a conclusion.> Well, it may not have really come to a conclusion, but> at least this meteorite has a name, Buck Mountains 003> > > <http://xrl.us/BM003>> > And the reason that this may not have come to a> conclusion is because it's still being debated whether> this 34kg find is paired to the Palo Verde Mine (L6)!?> But that's another thread... anyway...> > Congrats to Denny Asher on his entry in the MetBull.> > -- Bob V.> > ----------------------------> <http://www.mail-archive.com/meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com/msg39502.html>> > From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov> > Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:46:58 -0800 (PST)> > Subject: Man Finds What Apears to be 75-Pound> Meteorite in Arizona> > > http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4108042&nav=HMO6> > Man finds what appears to be 75-pound meteorite> Associated Press> November 12, 2005> > LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. It's not manna from heaven,> but is likely a meteorite weighing 75 pounds.> > Denny Asher of Yucca in northwestern Arizona says the> discovery is "better than finding a bucket of gold."> > He found the rock about two weeks ago near his home.> > Asher is a veteran meteorite hunter.> > He says the 75-pounder is unlike any of the other> pieces he's collected.> > The collections manager at Arizona State University's> Center for Meteorite Studies says pictures forwarded> to her by Asher almost certainly confirm his find is a> meteorite.> > Scientists hope to test the space rock and determine> its age, chemical composition and the origins of its> parent asteroid.> > > > > ______________________________________________> Meteorite-list mailing list> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
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