[meteorite-list] What is this?

[Michael Farmer]

I've been getting photos from Iran of all kinds of crap, nothing even close to meteorite, and he keeps saying NASA is buying them all but I can counter offer:)
Somehow I doubt anyone at NASA has seen these things. It is just the new name-dropping to try and sell.
Michael Farmer 

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On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:07 AM, plagioklas at arcor.de wrote:

> Right. I wonder who the NASA scientist is, about whom the owner of the stone talked or whether he exists or not. 
> 
> Seems to be some kind of new trend to let someone from the NASA verify unknown things. Maybe i should bring my old coins from flea market to one of the cooks from a NASA cantine to let him verify that these are from a antique romanian space capsule and thus worth alot. Then i tell i have verified it at NASA and they will sell well. 
> Alexander
> 
> 
> ----- Original Nachricht ----
> Von:     Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
> An:      Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org>
> Datum:   17.06.2013 14:57
> Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] What is this?
> 
>> I doubt any "rocks" were aboard the Mir space station:) So regardless of
>> where it came down the whole story is idiotic.
>> Michael Farmer
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jun 16, 2013, at 11:50 PM, Jodie Reynolds <spacerocks at spaceballoon.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Not buying it, at least not at face value. Quite literally "doesn't add
>> up".
>>> 
>>> It would have to survive at least another five orbits after Mir broke
>>> up.  And it would have been a very light piece. That's five orbits
>>> AFTER its OBSERVED reentry!
>>> 
>>> My simulation puts it within a few kilometers altitude of the US
>>> Army's tracking on Kwajalein Atoll, so I figure I can't be too far
>>> off, this is what the final track + 4 more orbits would have looked
>>> like.  Even in that last orbit, it would have to be pretty perturbed
>>> to make it there!  My atmospheric interface is based on archived
>>> data, but out there, the data isn't fantastic -- hence the probable
>>> reason I'm at 128km vs the actual 120km significant interface, and why I'm
>> at 93km when
>>> the US Army's observation is at 90km.
>>> 
>>> If you told me it was found in Fiji, Australia, New Zealand - I'd
>>> probably take a closer look at it.  East Coast of the US?  Psh.  No.
>>> 
>>> Here's my reentry model + 4 orbits
>>> http://spaceballoon.org/mir-reentry.png
>>> 
>>> --- Jodie
>>> 
>>> Sunday, June 16, 2013, 9:39:41 PM, you wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi List,
>>> 
>>>> There is something about this object that doesn't seem to add up.
>>>> The claim is that it is a "piece" of an old "Mir" space station.
>>>> 
>> http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/06/14/rock-found-in-amesbury-backyard-came-f
>> rom-space-station/
>>>> Comments?
>>> 
>>>> Cordially,
>>> 
>>>> Count Deiro
>>>> IMCA 3536 MetSoc
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