[meteorite-list] Not an answer they like
tracy latimer
daistiho at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 18 15:28:54 EDT 2021
I've been fielding a lot of e-mails this week from someone who is certain that a meteorite nearly hit their house. The picture they sent me is of what looks like a weathered lava bomb that likely washed free of an upslope location and rolled/fell/bounced into his yard. They found it the following day after a "loud thump that shook the house", then picked it up and hosed it off, so don't have any pictures of it in situ, just a shallow hole with muddy splash marks. I've told them several times that it doesn't look like a meteorite: vesicles, not regmaglypts; no fusion crust, nothing that identifies it as a likely meteorite, but they don't want to hear it. Anyone who has dealt with a persistent "meteorite" finder, how did you eventually get them to listen to reason/experience -- or not?
Best!
Tracy Latimer
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