[meteorite-list] Not an answer they like

[ALAN RUBIN]

I examine the specimens (or images of them if they do not send pieces) and
then give them my best guess as to what the sample could be. Some people
are insistent that I am wrong or that I am running some kind of a scam. I
usually continue the conversation for one or two more rounds before I give
up. At that point I sometimes tell them to try New England Meteoritical
Services and let them know that they can examine the specimen for a small
fee. If I find out that these folks have been sending the same sample to
more than one researcher, I immediately stop corresponding with them
because it is not fair to overworked researchers to be bedeviled by more
than one meteorwrong provider.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 5:06 PM Ben Fisler via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

> Tracy,
>        I usually offer to sell the individual “meteorites just like
> theirs”, from hundreds of pounds, to a few tons, very cheaply, since I have
> a near endless supply of the exact, same rocks, and that here in Phoenix,
> they are commonly used in landscaping.  That is usually the end of it.  Try
> it.😎
>
> Ben Fisler
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2021, at 11:27 AM, Anne Black via Meteorite-list <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> 
> I like Randy's response best. And he certainly is the expert.
>
> Thank you Randy, I think I will keep your response and use it next time I
> am asked, if you don't mind.
>
> Anne Black
> IMPACTIKA.com
> impactika at aol.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Korotev, Randy via Meteorite-list <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> To: tracy latimer <daistiho at hotmail.com>
> Cc: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thu, Mar 18, 2021 3:23 pm
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Not an answer they like
>
> I send them this link.  Doesn't usually help, though.
> https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/thud/
> ________________________________________
>
> From: Meteorite-list <meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com> on
> behalf of tracy latimer via Meteorite-list <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 14:28
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Not an answer they like
>
> 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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