[meteorite-list] Today's meteorite "fall" anniversary

[Sharkkb8]

http://members.aol.com/sharkkb8/candlestickrock.jpg   From time to time listees acknowledge meteorite fall anniversaries, and today is such a date, the 14th anniversary of a California fall which is largely unknown by most collectors.   I narrowly missed being struck by this falling "concrete chondrite", which "fell" in San Francisco's Candlestick Park on October 17, 1989 at 5:03p (earthquake, 7.0 on the Richter Scale), at Game Three of the World Series.   I hastily stuck this piece in my pocket (as I ran like hell out from under the stepped-concrete stadium overhang, like everyone around me).   Note the specimen's "Certificate of Authenticity" on the right.  And no, it wasn't red-hot when I picked it up.    ;-)       Gregory   P.S.  At the moment the earthquake struck, I honestly DO remember thinking, "Well, if you have to die, it may as well be at the World Series."  But while I underwent nothing more serious than a few minutes of terror and a subsequent bizarre few days "trapped" in a crippled major American city, of course many people lost their lives at that moment, so I don't wish this list-post to seem TOO light-hearted.