[meteorite-list] Anyone remember this?

cdtucson at cox.net cdtucson at cox.net
Mon Nov 9 13:55:32 EST 2009


All, 
Yes is was space junk but does anybody have the actual analysis that was done?
Thanks see link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18618503/

--Thank you. 
Carl or Debbie Esparza
(520) 979-9865
Meteoritemax


---- Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> I was not aware this was determined to be space debris....and  
> stainless steel no less?   All best / d,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Grant Elliott wrote:
> 
> > Carl,
> >
> > Wasn't a wood chipper a possible source for this object?
> > Certain "experts" at Rutgers still have egg on face-
> >
> > Grant Elliott
> > Williamstown, NJ
> >
> >
> > On Nov 7, 2009, at 1:58 PM, <cdtucson at cox.net> <cdtucson at cox.net>  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Darryl, List,
> >> I just came across this in my old mail and have a question.
> >> I know you are an expert so, obviously you knew it was not a  
> >> meteorite by sight.
> >> So, the question is this. Since we know now that  It was determined  
> >> to be space debris from a pervious space mission and I believe they  
> >> called it stainless steel. Would it not still have a great value  
> >> because it was once in space? And shouldn't it still have fusion  
> >> crust? Why does it not? Where is the fusion crust? Is it possible  
> >> that some metal meteorites do not have fusion crusts? I would love  
> >> to see the analysis of this space rock. It seems to me this should  
> >> argue against a "must have"  for fusion crust. Is this not the  
> >> observed science here ? And are we supposed to ignore the science?  
> >> This thing crashed through a roof and caused significant damage. Do  
> >> you have any inside knowledge of what ever happened to the rock?  
> >> Thanks Carl
> >>
> >> --
> >> Carl or Debbie Esparza
> >> (520) 979-9865
> >> Meteoritemax
> >>
> >>
> >> ---- Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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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