[meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 138, Issue 17

[Eric Christensen]

Hi all,

Pavel Spurny and his team are considered to be among the world's experts in instrumentally observed bolides.  Before dismissing this story as a scam based on a single image, you may wish to read the paper in its entirety:

http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2014/10/aa24308-14.pdf

paying special attention to the local conditions where the meteorites were found.  20 years of being repeatedly tilled under farmland soil in a wet European climate is hard on meteorites.  These were also thought to be meteorites that came from a violent, low-altitude disruption, so even if they initially had fusion crust or typical meteorite shapes, 20 years in the ground would have likely significantly altered their appearance.

Regards,

Eric Christensen

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On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 8:31 PM, "meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com" <meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:




Message: 1
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:55:34 -0700
From: Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
To: MEM <mstreman53 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Meteorite Mailing List <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fw: [Geology2] Meteorite fragments
    discovered    20 years after bolide event in Czech Republic
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Sorry but fake as crap, clearly ancient NWA meteorite. Pultusk stones are still being 150 years after the fall and they don't even look hardly weathers at all, same wet climate.
Sorry but I call a scam, 
Michael Farmer

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> On Oct 15, 2014, at 4:53 PM, MEM via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
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> <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141014142736.htm>
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> Meteorite fragments discovered 20 years after bolide event in Czech Republic
> Date: October 14, 2014
> Source: Astronomy & Astrophysics
> Summary: Scientists have discovered meteorite fragments 20 years after the corresponding bolide 
> was seen in the skies of the Czech Republic. This discovery was made possible by reanalyzing the trajectory, which moved the impact line by 330 meters. Interestingly, the meteorites found on the ground are of 
> different types, pointing to a parent asteroid of heterogeneous composition.
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