[meteorite-list] Request from Kenya on suspect rock
Eric Hutton
bookman at rmplc.co.uk
Thu May 28 17:44:35 EDT 2009
I (Eric Hutton) am conected with the Federation of Astronomical Societies in
the UK, and we recently had an
unsolicited email asking is this a piece of a meteorite?
I have put up the three photographs received (some are not that clear)
here...
www.meteoritehistory.info/image1.jpg
www.meteoritehistory.info/image2.jpg
www.meteoritehistory.info/image3.jpg
together with the text of the original email... What do people think?
If anyone want's to follow this up I can forward contact details. I don't
wan't to post there email
or contact details without asking first, maybe a small piece could be
chipped off for analysis.
Message follows...
Dear People,
My neighbor, Mr Jarvis Njoroge (pictured) says that he retrieved a whitish
rock in Kitengela, about 40 km south east of Nairobi, Kenya, from maasai
herdsmen who say it fell from the sky.
There're no other rocks of that type in the area. It looks burnt on the
edges and is probably a shard of something bigger. Might it be a
meteorite?
I have pictures of it and will be happy if you could guide me on where
to send them.
Thanks for your time,
Kariuki Kiragu,
Nairobi, Kenya
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