[meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'

[ensoramanda at ntlworld.com]

Interesting thought Martin...

I wonder what their position would be regarding a meteorite (that belonged to the state) hitting and injuring/killing somebody?

Graham, UK

---- Martin Altmann <altmann at meteorite-martin.de> wrote: 
> "A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are
> meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
> 
> Because those people finding real meteorites, lunars and Martians aren't
> coming to Australia.  :-(
> 
> Why?
> 
> Because: "if it was 
> a meteor it belongs to the WA Government".
> 
> 
> Other question, would WA Government have paid the fixing of the roof, if it
> would have been a meteorite?
> I mean, then the damage would have caused by a property of the state,
> wouldn't it?
> 
> Martin
> 
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> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Jeff
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> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. April 2010 16:35
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> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock,not
> meteorite'
> 
> http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/special-features/museum-investigates-meteori
> te-claims/story-e6frg1ac-1225837470139
> 
> Museum investigation: 'Probably a rock, not meteorite'
> 
> 
> SCIENTISTS investigating claims a meteor fragment the size of a cricket ball
> 
> collided into a WA house have confirmed it was almost certainly a rock. The 
> object hit the roof of the home about 4pm on Thursday in the north-eastern 
> Perth suburb of Beechboro.
> 
> A female occupant thought it was a meteor.
> 
> The WA Museum today said the object may have fallen from a plane lowering 
> its landing gear.
> 
> The museum's head of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Dr Alex Bevan, yesterday 
> inspected the object, which he did not suspect was from outer space.
> 
> "Alex did have a look at some photos of the object, but when he did look at 
> it in person, he did not think it was from a meteorite," a museum 
> spokesperson said.
> 
> "Sometimes rocks get caught in the wheels of planes and as they are lowering
> 
> their gear they may fall, we just don't know."
> 
> Perth Observatory said it had received a "couple of reports" on Thursday 
> night from people phoning to say they had seen a light in the sky.
> 
> "At this stage no one seems to be able to put it all together, but if it was
> 
> a meteor it belongs to the WA Government, observatory astronomer Ralph 
> Martyn said.
> 
> "The reports at this stage are very sketchy."
> 
> He said the observatory was waiting to inspect a photograph of the object.
> 
> "A lot of people find slag out of glass furnaces and think they are 
> meteorites as well, they kind of look the same."
> 
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