[meteorite-list] Another lying kid gets clueless paper to publish his story
Darren Garrison
cynapse at charter.net
Tue Sep 22 12:26:04 EDT 2009
Caution-- this story contains such a dense concentration of misinformation that
there is the risk of it tearing a hole in reality and suck you into your
monitor.
Photo in the link.
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2009/09/22/meteorite-rocks-bruno-s-world-97319-24745554/
'Meteorite' rocks Bruno's world
Sep 22 2009 by Vicky Farncombe, Birmingham
STARGAZING student Bruno Bertullo had a wish come true when what he believes to
be a meteorite landed in his grandmothers back garden.
The Spanish 16-year-old was playing on the computer in his bedroom when out of
the corner of his eye he saw a fireball whizz past the window.
He ran down to the garden in Blackford Road, Sparkhill, where he discovered an
unusual looking rock.
It was the size of his hand and covered in holes.
I tried to touch it but it was very hot so I ran back into the kitchen to fetch
the tongs, said Bruno.
I put it in some cold water and straight away the water went hot.
Its very strange. I have never seen anything like it in my life and it wasnt
in the garden before. The keen astronomer studied the rock and looked up its
structure on the internet.
I think its a meteorite, he said. I know from listening to spacemen that
meteorites look broken and their surface is full of pores just like this one.
Bruno, who moved from Madrid to his grandmothers house to practise his English,
is a sports student at Solihull College.
He said he was really excited to find the moon rock.
Im very interested in astronomy. I never thought I should be so lucky as to
find a meteorite, he said.
Meteorologist John Wright from the University of Birmingham said it was very
likely that the rock fell from outer space.
The earths orbit has been passing through a cloud of meteorites in the last
few weeks so Im not surprised, he said. Weve had a lot of people witnessing
shooting stars. If it is a meteorite it will be very dark and heavy.
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