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

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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of tracy
latimer
Sent: 05 April 2007 02:16
To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Subject: [meteorite-list] Old news reports: true or untrue?

 

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.
> 
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> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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