[meteorite-list] Anyone remember this?

[Darryl Pitt]

Obviously at the outset a meteorwrong....but somehow required months  
to establish after a team of scientists from Rutgers declared it was a  
meteorite.

With no visual or sonic phenomena to accompany the low altitude  
explosion, which would have been the only explanation for such a shape  
and striated surface character without fusion crust, there was no way  
this was a meteorite.  I vigorously pointed out to the local  
newspapers and Rutgers this couldn't possibly be a meteorite to no  
avail.  I was on a live FOX radio show where they literally took me  
off the air after having called me to ask what I thought of the "new  
meteorite."  When I pointed out that it was unlikely this was a  
meteorite, they pointed out "And you have a degree in what?" and upon  
my answer cut to a commercial and I was toast.

Months after Rutgers put the object on display in their natural  
history museum---for which they attracted their largest crowds ever--- 
it was publicly acknowledged the origin of this object was of earthly  
provenance.



On May 8, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Meteorites USA wrote:

> Does anyone remember or know what came of this?
>
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070105-space-rock.html
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Eric Wichman
> Meteorites USA
>
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