[meteorite-list] Suspected Meteorite Hits Illinois Home

[Darren Garrison]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:34:03 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

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>http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/03/05/news/doc45ec62e14a6c2722505892.txt
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>Robert "Skip" Nelson, a professor of geology at ISU, came out to
>Riddles' home to take a look at the object, which is about the size and
>shape of deck of cards.
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>Nelson said based on the density of the object, the metal could be an
>iron-nickel mixture or a heavy stainless steel. It is unlikely a
>satellite or spacecraft would contain metal that heavy and dense, Nelson
>said.
>
>"In my 36 years of investigating meteorite calls, this looks like the
>real thing," Nelson said.

Robert "Skip" Nelson needs to turn in his "meteorite investigator" card.  This
thing is so obviously, unambigiously NOT a meteorite that one of those
preschoolers in the first photo should be able to point it out:

http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/notameteorite.jpg