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Builders Find Possible Meteorite at Construction Site Associated Press December 10, 2003 Two Shelby county home builders are trying to find out if a rock they found imbedded in foam insulation at a construction site could be a meteorite. Bob Weddle and his son Brian Weddle discovered the rock December first inside a stack of sheets of foam material left outside at a work site near Shelbyville. The rock was about four inches around and had a porous surface. It was about seven inches deep in the insulation. Bob Weddle says a rock would have bounced off. He believes the object burned its way into the material. Indiana University geologist Abhijit Basu says that's possible, if the rock is a meteorite. Another expert -- Carl Agee, director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico -- says a meteorite would be more likely to pierce the foam than melt through it. The Weddles are trying to find an expert to confirm if what they found was a meteorite. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.thelouisvillechannel.com/news/2695269/detail.html Rock Found In Home May Be Meteorite Rock Found In Insulation The Louisville Channel December 10, 2003 SHELBYVILLE, Ind. -- Two home builders were trying to find out if a rock they found imbedded in foam insulation at a construction site could be a meteorite. Builders Bob Weddle, 51, and his son Brian Weddle, 27, discovered the rock Dec. 1 inside a stack of sheets of foam material left outside at a work site near Shelbyville, about 20 miles southeast of Indianapolis. The rock, which was about 4 inches around and had a porous surface, was about seven inches deep in the insulation. "If it fell into a field, I wouldn't have noticed anything about it, but it went through that foam," Bob Weddle said. "If you threw a rock at the foam, it'd bounce right off it. This burned its way through it." That's possible, said Abhijit Basu, a geologist at Indiana University. A meteor burning through the atmosphere is "more than red-hot; it's bluish-green hot," he said. Carl Agee, director of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, said a meteorite would be more likely to crash through a stack of foam than melt through, however. Most meteor showers do not produce objects large enough to reach the ground, he said. The Weddles were trying to find an expert to confirm whether the rock was a meteorite. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
