[meteorite-list] Rocks From Space Picture of the Day - August 1, 2007

[Michael Farmer]

I believe those were old particles from the roofing
shingles and tar, clearly not in the same league as
that amazing Eucrite.
Michael Farmer

--- Bill <glixard at inbox.com> wrote:


> Incredible... The "needle-like fusion artifacts"

> remind me of this old post:

> 

> Dear List Members, You are going to think we are

> insane > announcing this but we feel it

> is important. We acquired a > computer game still in

> the box that was struck by a

> meteorite > inside a house on Dunham street in the

> Park Forest > neighborhood. This is

> from the same site that Mike Farmer > purchased the

> House Hammering stone. This game box

> acted as a > receptacle trapping some fragments from

> the meteorite, wood > from the attic

> and sheet rock from the ceiling. While > examining

> the contents of the game box under a

> microscope we > were shocked to see the following

> objects: Dumbbell shaped > glassy

> formsTeardrop shaped glassy formsRod shaped glassy >

> formsPatty shaped glassy forms with

> sunken centersBall shaped > glassy > forms

>

Dumbbellhttp://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/microtektites1.jpg

> Dumbbell > and >

>

Teardrophttp://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/microtektites2.jpg

> Mixture > of several >

> types

>

http://www.lunarrock.com/ParkForest/microtektites3.jpg

> These > are all the same

> shapes you will find in Tektites, yet these > cannot

> be called impactites since the

> meteorite did not melt > any objects when it crashed

> through the roof. This is no joke >

> so you collectors in the field may want to revisit

> the houses > that were struck by

> meteorites and collect the debris left > behind

> before it is too late. We do not know the

> scientific > importance of this discovery but will

> find out soon since the > University of

> Washington is interested in pursuing these > strange

> objects. It has been suggested that

> these objects may > have come from the ablation

> train left behind by this fall. It > is

> our hope that more of this material is collected

> before it > is too late. All the Best

> Adam Hupe

> 

> It's funny that these pictures came up today as I

> was just searching the archives, found

> Adam's thread and would like to know the final

> determination of the glassy PF "artifacts"

> he recovered, not that PF could ever compare to

> these spectacular new porcupines!

> 

> Thanks for all the pics,

> Bill

> 

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> of the Day - August 1,

> > 2007

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