[meteorite-list] "SNEAKY LITTLE DEVILS" NJO CONFIRMED METEORWRONG

[Pete Pete]

Not to keep flogging this dead horse, but I also am skeptical about these 
guys continuing to identify the source of the object without any evidence to 
support!

What makes them so convinced that it actually came from space?
Is there an indication of ablation? There would have to be, right?
It sure doesn't look like there is.

They may be eating crow again...

Cheers,
Pete





From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
To: Meteorite List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] "SNEAKY LITTLE DEVILS" NJO CONFIRMED METEORWRONG
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:26:42 -0400



It has finally been determined by experts that the NJO is not a  meteorite.

In Friday's AP story, Rutgers University geologist Jerry Delaney was  quoted 
as saying,"I was wrong. Sneaky little devil."

The second sentiment is not even remotely accurate.

As I mentioned to the list in January, there was absolutely nothing  about 
the NJO which resembled a new meteorite. I advised the Newark  Star Ledger, 
The New York Times and AP in writing that the NJO was  not a meteorite. I 
contacted the museum at Rutgers prior to their  exhibition of the 
object---which generated the largest attendance on  a single day---that this 
was not a meteorite.

The only "sneaky little devils" are the folks at Rutgers University.

Stories are released on Friday nights so the story will miss the news  
cycle.  It's for stories that would cause embarrassment; it's for  those 
moments where you hope the story disappears.

This is just so deplorable---and it's not an isolated instance of how  an 
institution with something to gain---and the media---work.  But  for 
scientists to be so sloppy in THEIR work is just  so....disappointing. As I 
wrote to the list several months ago:  "While [this] may ultimately be among 
the most unusual freshly fallen  meteorites known to exist, such an 
assessment cannot and should not  ever have been made by simply passing it 
around for a casual analysis  and singing kumbaya."

Here is the latest story....in case you missed it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070511/ap_on_sc/fallen_object


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