[meteorite-list] Meteorite fell in front of children

[Thomas Österberg]

Dear Listoids,

It looks like the dog Hopper now has got a competitor, living in southern 
Sweden! Her name is Molly.

According to the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet, a meteorite fell down in 
front of a group of cildren (and the dog Molly) last week, just outside the 
small village St.Olof, situated in the Swedish provice of Scania, about 100 
km east of Copenhagen.

Heres a link to the article: 
http://sydsvenskan.se/sverige/article538923/Barn-nara-att-traffas-av-mystisk-flygande-sten.html

I have tried to translate the text content to English.

The children Villmaron Andreasson 9, Linn-Klara Andreasdaughter 7, Ebba 
Larsson 8, and Vinga Andreasdaughter 11, was out and went with the family 
dogs in the grove behind Sankt Olof (in the province of Scania, southernmost 
Sweden).
It said "schwissssss", said Villmaron and shows with his arms how fast the 
stone damp down, just a few meters in front of them.
"It was like smoke".
When the stone hit the ground, dust and smoke swirled up.
Villmaron first thought it was a branch that had fallen down, but the dog 
Molly, that first got very scared, finally took courage, and sniffed her way 
to the stone, situated in a hole a few inches down.
It was Molly who found it!
The stone is very black and full of holes. Looks like it was burnt of fire, 
says Villmaron.
It almost looks like a piece of petrified lava says Villmarons father 
Andreas Johansson.
The children immediately took the stone with them and run home. They were 
very excited, says their mother Maja Larsson.
They talked in mouth of each other and told their parents that the rock fell 
from the sky with a high velocity and how the gravel had whirled up and how 
scared the dog had been. Then the kids run on to Grandma and Grandpa living 
in the same village, in order to show them the stone too. When the children 
had left, their mother Maja started to brood.
"First after a while it went up for me how lucky the children had been. 
Imagine if anybody of them had been hit by the stone? It could have gone 
really bad".
The first I found out to do was to call Ystads Allehanda (a local newspaper) 
says Maja laughing.
Is it really a meteorite? Well the family is convinced that it is! At the 
official web site of the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, we 
learn that a meteorite will be magnetic.
Maja ties a refrigerator magnet to a sewing thread and holds the magnet next 
to the stone. The magnet attracts directly to the stone. The shape and 
colour also corresponds to the description of a meteorite at the National 
Museum web site. Can it be of any worth wonder Maja tactfully?
But she rapidly concludes that this issue is not important. The stone will 
be framed and hanged up on the wall, as a memory of an exceptionally event.
First the stone will be sent to the Swedish Museum of Natural History for 
identification. If it's turns up to is genuine meteorite the story will be 
even better!

The picture of the stone makes me a little bit suspicious. Has some 
similarities to a piece of slag.
Happy hunting.

Thomas Österberg