[meteorite-list] Rocks from Space Picture of the Day - March 26, 2008 / Story

[Thetoprok at aol.com]

Bernd, List,

Thanks to all for  the nice comments, It's my pleasure to share the story.

Bernd asked about  the amount of time that passed between the explosion and 
the fall of stones.  
Yes, I asked specifically and he said it was a minute or two, I remember  
being a bit surprised at this.
I need to note that I may have made an error.  I wrote that the meteorite was 
picked up within a minute of falling, but now I'm  thinking it may have been 
a couple hours. I must be getting old!  Either  way it never saw the rain that 
most other recoveries at Park Forest  did.

In a message dated 3/26/2008 10:56:11 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
bernd.pauli at paulinet.de writes:
Larry writes: "I'd like to share the story of  this meteorite's recovery."


Thank you Larry for sharing this  particular and very personal recovery story!
Beautiful story, beautiful PP  specimen, indeed! There is one litle detail 
that
piques my  curiosity:

"He was not yet asleep when he experienced the bright light  illuminating his
bedroom and the tremendous explosions that followed. A  *couple minutes* later
he heard a disturbance outside, he said it sounded  like something hit his 
house."

In view of the tremendous fireball and the  accompanying sound phenomena
witnessed by various people here in Europe  (especially Switzerland, Southern
Germany and Eastern France) ... was it  really "a couple minutes later" or was
it "a couple seconds later"?

As  a sidenote: What coincidence as even the time of fall would almost be  
identical
23:50:26 hrs for Park Forest and ca. 23:45 hrs for the fireball of  March 01, 
2008!

For those interested in reading more about the Park  Forest, L5 (S5; W0; br; 
sv;
impact melt pockets) chondrite, here are some  stories worth reading or 
re-reading:

BROWN P. (2003) Meteorites Rain on  Chicago Suburbs (Sky & Tel., July 2003, 
p. 25).

SIMON S.B. et al.  (2003) The fall, recovery, and classification
of the Park Forest meteorite  (MAPS 38-7, 2003, A139).

SIMON S.B. et al. (2004) The fall, recovery, and  classification
of the Park Forest meteorite (MAPS 39-4, 2004, pp.  625-634).

SIPIERA P.P. (2003) The Fall of the Park Forest,  Illinois
Meteorite (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.  08-11).

NOTKIN G., SINCLAIR J. (2003) In the Forest of the
Night  (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 12-14).

HOREJSI M. (2003) From  the Strewnfields - A Portable
Strewnfield (Meteorite, Aug 2003, Vol. 9, No.  3, p. 25).



Best regards from the happy owner of
6.5 + 4.7 + 4  + 0.5 + 0.2 grams
of the Park Forest meteorite,

Bernd


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