[meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (wasTemperature of meteorites)

[Murray Paulson]

A friend of mine is having problems posting to the list, so I am
trying to do that for him...

M Paulson
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From: Brian Moore
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:55 PM
To: 'meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com'
Subject: sulphurous smell of meteorites

Dear List:

When Murray Paulson and I came across the fellow who found the 7 kg
Buzzard Coulee there was a distinct smell, to me at least. There was a
hint of something sulphurous but more kind of a organic swampy smell.
Then for some reason a scent of new-mown hay popped into my mind.

We came about 10 minutes after the meteorite had been pulled out the
shallow hole it had created.
Murray took a picture and I took down the GPS coordinates.

For a great picture of the event see Bruce McCurdy's Buzzard web site:
skyriver.ca/astro/bruce/meteorite.htm

This was 12 days after the meteor fell in frozen winter conditions.


-Brian Moore