Tracy,
When I find myself in this situation I tell them they can be certain it's not a
meteorite because I'm not offering them any money! I tell them how important a
new find/fall would be and that if this was a meteorite, I would be connecting
them with an institution and offering cash. This usually gets the point across.
Good luck!
Larry
On Thursday, March 18, 2021 tracy latimer via Meteorite-list
<daist...@hotmail.com> wrote:
#yiv5034037856 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}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?
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