[meteorite-list] true "meteorite" stories

[Larry & Twink Monrad]

Funny Michael should write, this just happened this morning. I 
received a call from a neighbor, who actually lives close to Jim 
Kriegh's former house.  He said that a son of a friend of his brought 
to his house last night a meteorite.  The son had said he heard the 
soft ball sized  meteorite land in the dirt in his back yard in the 
south part of Tucson and it made a two inch crater.  Ron had a photo 
on his cell phone to show me and came to my house.  Ron said his 
friend took this meteorite to the U of A and was told that it 
appeared to be lunar and that the friend should take it to Phoenix 
and leave it and in six weeks he would be told if it were 
lunar.  Already this sounded weird.  He did not want to let the lunar 
out of his sight so Ron  showed me this photo.  It was black and 
shiny and had lots of angular and flat edges between the 
bubbles.  I  had Ron look over my meteorite collection, let him hold 
a few, showed him different types and then took him out in my front 
yard and showed him my collection of slag.  He right away said yes 
that is what his friend had. How the U of A story evolved remains a 
mystery.  I of course sent him  home with a sliced Gold Basin with 
the Sky and Telescope article and photo of Jim Kriegh in the field from 1998.

Jim and I also had another true experience.  A person came over to 
Jim's a few years ago and showed us his meteorite.  It was a dark 
rock with possibly Arizona red jasper showing through.  Jim gently 
gave him the sad news and I could not resist asking why he thought it 
was a meteorite.  He said he had seen the Peekskill meteorite on the 
internet, and it had red streaks too...

Twink Monrad