So we are talking about a completely different event. The one in Madrid was downtown, hit a blue BMW ( I saw the photos and the meteorite, a ~900 gram complete stone H5 like. Mike Farmer ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herbert Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 12:05 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Spanish Meteorite?
> > Hello List, > > Walter Branch writes: > > I have an astronomy textbook (Voyages Through the Universe, > > Fraknoi, Morrison, and Wolf, 1997) in which a meteorite is > > reported to have struck a car and the driver. > ... > > Did the curator verify the date, June, 1999? > > The really interesting question is this: How can a astronomy > textbook from 1997 report on a meteorite fall from June 1999...? > > So I think that the book refers to the controversial event of > June 21, 1994, when a 1.4kg stone hit a car that was driving > down the road from Madrid to Marbella. However, many more small > stones of the same type were found around the impact site, and > these stones have later been identified as a piece of slag. > There were some reports on that in Sky & Telescope in 1994/95. > > Best greetings, > Herbert > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
