[meteorite-list] Perseid Meteor Hammerstone!

[Greg Stanley]

No... rocks don't fly up, they fall down.

It's a Enstatite chondrite - just by looking at it with a microscope.

It would be nice to see a picture of it, and the railroad gravel too.

Greg S.


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> From: prairiecactus at rtcol.com

> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com

> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:19:11 -0400

> Subject: [meteorite-list] Perseid Meteor Hammerstone!

>

> Yet another Perseid meteor strikes the Earth! This one's a hammerstone!

> Any chance that nearby passing train kicked up a piece of railroad rock?

> Nah......

>

> Phil Whitmer

>

>

>

> http://www.gethampshire.co.uk/news/s/2056117_meteorite_shatters_mans_conservatory

>

> 'Meteorite' shatters man's conservatory

> By Jack Sommers

> August 21, 2009

>

>

> A MAN is convinced a meteorite hit his home in Fleet on Tuesday.

>

> Humphrey Peek was sitting at his home in Cove Road on August 18 when he

> heard a loud bang.

>

> He said: "I thought that doesn't sound right. I thought it my washing

> machine had gone or a door had blown shut."

>

> When he went to his conservatory he found the glass door had been smashed.

>

> His first thought was that someone had thrown something from a passing

> train.

>

> A day later his neighbour inspected the damage and spotted a small black

> piece of rock.

>

> "If that had hit me when I was out in the garden it would've killed me stone

> dead," Mr Peek said.

>

> Mr Peek, who worked for 35 years in the mining industry identifying

> materials and rocks, put it under the microscope.

>

> What he saw convinced him it was an Enstatite chondrite meteorite.

>

> He contacted the Natural History Museum, who told him meteorites hitting

> falling to earth was "not as uncommon as you might think".

>

> The museum asked if it could have the rock but he wanted to keep it.

>

> He filed an insurance claim and was visited by his insurer.

>

> Mr Peek said his insurer wrote meteor strike on his clipboard under the

> section describing the cause of the accident.

>

> The "meteorite" hit a week after stargazers were out looking to see the peak

> of the annual Perseids meteor shower.

>

> Mr Peek was among those hoping to catch a glimpse of the shooting stars

>

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