I send them this link. Doesn't usually help, though. https://sites.wustl.edu/meteoritesite/items/thud/ ________________________________________ From: Meteorite-list <meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com> on behalf of tracy latimer via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 14:28 To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Not an answer they like
I've been fielding a lot of e-mails this week from someone who is certain that a meteorite nearly hit their house. The picture they sent me is of what looks like a weathered lava bomb that likely washed free of an upslope location and rolled/fell/bounced into his yard. They found it the following day after a "loud thump that shook the house", then picked it up and hosed it off, so don't have any pictures of it in situ, just a shallow hole with muddy splash marks. I've told them several times that it doesn't look like a meteorite: vesicles, not regmaglypts; no fusion crust, nothing that identifies it as a likely meteorite, but they don't want to hear it. Anyone who has dealt with a persistent "meteorite" finder, how did you eventually get them to listen to reason/experience -- or not? Best! Tracy Latimer ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
