Re: [meteorite-list] Metal Object Crashes Through New Jersey Home
Why do we keep speaking of fusion crust on iron meteorites? Eman WNBC-TV here in N.Y. showed a clip of the rock yesterday, no fusion crust that I could see. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Metal Object Crashes Through New Jersey Home
WNBC-TV here in N.Y. showed a clip of the rock yesterday, no fusion crust that I could see. Pretty clean looking for a fresh fall. Looked kind of like an iron but no fusion crust was visible to me at least. I'm no expert by any means. Definitely caught my ear as they talked about the story at first. Regards and Happy new year to all Tom On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Ron Baalke wrote: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_Fallen_Object.html Metal object crashes through N.J. home By CHRIS NEWMARKER ASSOCIATED PRESS January 3, 2007 [photo] A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball is seen in this undated photograph provided by Det. R. Gelber of Freehold Township Police Department in Freehold Township, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed into the a Monmouth County home Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. (AP Photo/ Det. R. Gelber of Freehold township Police Department ) FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was. Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed into the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. The rough-feeling object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police. There's some great interest in what we have here, said Lt. Robert Brightman. It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything like it in my career. He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but declined to name the other agencies whose help he said he had enlisted. Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had punched a hole in the roof of a single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor below and then bounced, sticking into a wall. The object was heavier than a usual metal object of that size, said Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected. Brightman would not disclose the address of the house or the names of the people who lived there, citing the family's desire to not talk to the media. He would only say that the couple and their adult son live in a township housing development. Brightman said one man who lives at the home found the object at about 9 p.m. Tuesday after returning from work and hearing from his mother that something had crashed through the roof a few hours before. The Federal Aviation Administration, which sent investigators to the town, did not know where the object came from, said spokeswoman Arlene Murray. It's definitely not an aircraft part, she said. I can't speak beyond that as to what it might be. Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the entire planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers University. It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven, said Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the Monmouth County home. These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal. Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if the object were a meteorite. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Metal Object Crashes Through New Jersey Home
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_Fallen_Object.html Metal object crashes through N.J. home By CHRIS NEWMARKER ASSOCIATED PRESS January 3, 2007 [photo] A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball is seen in this undated photograph provided by Det. R. Gelber of Freehold Township Police Department in Freehold Township, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed into the a Monmouth County home Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. (AP Photo/ Det. R. Gelber of Freehold township Police Department ) FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was. Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed into the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. The rough-feeling object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police. There's some great interest in what we have here, said Lt. Robert Brightman. It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything like it in my career. He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but declined to name the other agencies whose help he said he had enlisted. Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had punched a hole in the roof of a single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor below and then bounced, sticking into a wall. The object was heavier than a usual metal object of that size, said Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected. Brightman would not disclose the address of the house or the names of the people who lived there, citing the family's desire to not talk to the media. He would only say that the couple and their adult son live in a township housing development. Brightman said one man who lives at the home found the object at about 9 p.m. Tuesday after returning from work and hearing from his mother that something had crashed through the roof a few hours before. The Federal Aviation Administration, which sent investigators to the town, did not know where the object came from, said spokeswoman Arlene Murray. It's definitely not an aircraft part, she said. I can't speak beyond that as to what it might be. Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the entire planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers University. It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven, said Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the Monmouth County home. These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal. Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if the object were a meteorite. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Metal Object Crashes Through New Jersey Home
Hi, The Monmouth object doesn't look strikingly like an iron meteorite, but you can't rule it completely based on looks. Thankfully, they provide a scale, so a rough estimate of volume can be made. The weight is given as 13 ounces, or about 370 grams. Roughing up the volume on a cylinder of the diameter and length of the object shown, I get a density between 7 gm/cm^3 and 8 gm/cm^3, so it's likely iron. Whether it's extraterrestrial iron is another matter... But we can rule out an old lead sash weight, or a melted bronze bushing. Why do these dodoes always check sky-fallen objects for radioactivity? When was the last time a radioactive chunk of sky fell on them? (I assuming they didn't live in Canada when the Russian Cosmos reactor came down.) If there was a rain of toads, would they check them for radioactivity? If there was a rain of rain, would they check it for radioactivity? I wonder when and how the urban myth of checking meteorites for radioactivity got started? Call the cops! And tell'em to bring a geiger counter! Sterling K. Webb -- - Original Message - From: Ron Baalke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Meteorite Mailing List meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:18 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Metal Object Crashes Through New Jersey Home http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_Fallen_Object.html Metal object crashes through N.J. home By CHRIS NEWMARKER ASSOCIATED PRESS January 3, 2007 [photo] A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball is seen in this undated photograph provided by Det. R. Gelber of Freehold Township Police Department in Freehold Township, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007. Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed into the a Monmouth County home Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. (AP Photo/ Det. R. Gelber of Freehold township Police Department ) FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were trying to figure out what it was. Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13 ounces, crashed into the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. The rough-feeling object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police. There's some great interest in what we have here, said Lt. Robert Brightman. It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything like it in my career. He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but declined to name the other agencies whose help he said he had enlisted. Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had punched a hole in the roof of a single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor below and then bounced, sticking into a wall. The object was heavier than a usual metal object of that size, said Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected. Brightman would not disclose the address of the house or the names of the people who lived there, citing the family's desire to not talk to the media. He would only say that the couple and their adult son live in a township housing development. Brightman said one man who lives at the home found the object at about 9 p.m. Tuesday after returning from work and hearing from his mother that something had crashed through the roof a few hours before. The Federal Aviation Administration, which sent investigators to the town, did not know where the object came from, said spokeswoman Arlene Murray. It's definitely not an aircraft part, she said. I can't speak beyond that as to what it might be. Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the entire planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers University. It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven, said Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the Monmouth County home. These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal. Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if the object were a meteorite. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
