Why do the 'experts' say these things to the press? How about "it is more likely to have been thrown by a boy from the other side of the building?"
Perhaps it is real, but I think not! Remember the lady who 'found' ( the bolide so many saw) in her garden? Not a meteorite!
We get 2 or 3 of these kind of meteorite stories in the British press each year. The newspapers like to sensationalise the story and astound their readers with "facts" that might only really be heresay, guesses or just slim possibilities at the time it's reported. The funny thing is, there are rarely/never follow-up articles, saying that little Jimmy's space rock was actually just a piece of roofing tile that got blown off the top of a nearby house, just as he happened to be walking underneath it.
I guess follow-ups like that don't sell many papers!
I remember reading a story that appeared in all of the British national newspapers about 3 years ago, where a guy had found a "meteorite" while out walking his dog. I spoke with him on the phone and he told me that he was a physicist, and tests in the lab (his own tests, in his own lab) showed that the "meteorite" had huge chunks of diamond inside the stone, some approaching 1cm in size. He'd never seen a meteorite before but that didn't matter, so he called all the newspapers. They believed him because of his credentials, and before we knew what was happening, it was declared in the press as a new meteorite....no doubt about it whatsoever!
Needless to say, it wasn't.
Rob.
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