[meteorite-list] Not an answer they like

[Michael Mulgrew]

Tell them to have it classified by a laboratory, and then ignore them.
Chances are these types won't even listen to a laboratory, but it takes the
onus of reply off of you.

-Michael in so. Cal.

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:17 PM tracy latimer via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

> 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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