[meteorite-list] "Object that fell into N.J. home is meteorite"

[Tom Randall (KB2SMS)]

Hi Darryl,
    Oh I agree. I'm curious about how the real analysis will turn  
out. I used the term "fusion crust" before when I said I saw none on  
the suspected object, maybe that was the wrong term. I saw no dark  
material on it indicating a space origin. Looked to "clean" to me.

By the way, my posts seem to take a day or 2 to get to the list, not  
sure why. I'm mostly a "lurker" to reduce spam coming in to me but  
now and then I like to join in.

Regards!

Tom


On Jan 6, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Darryl Pitt wrote:


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> Thanks for posting this article.....which exasperates.

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> SCIENTIFIC METHOD AT RUTGERS?

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> There is very little about the New Jersey object that resembles a  

> freshly fallen meteorite.  It's shape is so ambiguous---at best--- 

> that the only possible way to determine whether it was a freshly  

> fallen meteorite is for a a little destructive analysis.  The  

> parameters used for the identification: density, magnetic  

> properties, markings and coloration are wholly insufficient in the  

> determination of the origin of such an object.

>

> While it may ultimately be among the most unusual freshly fallen  

> meteorites known to exist, such an assessment cannot and should not  

> ever have been made by simply passing it around for a casual  

> analysis and singing kumbaya.

>

> Best/ darryl

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> On Jan 5, 2007, at 7:03 PM, Tom Randall (KB2SMS) wrote:

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>> http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal- 

>> object0105,0,6089007.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

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>> http://home.hvc.rr.com/kb2sms/

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