From: "Ron Baalke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Meteorite Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:25 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall in Australia?
> > http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2004/06/28/1088274657543.html > > A TERANG man believes a meteorite whizzed past his head in the early > hours of the morning last week. > > "I walked out to have a look and there was a deep hole, about 18 inches, > and I got a spade and started digging around the rock." > > He said the 250-gram object was seven or eight centimetres across and > was brown, red and other colours. Pardon my ignorance, but would a fresh meteorite have signs of oxidation? Where is the fusion crust? Or is that just earth dirt on the outside of the meteorite? I looks a lot like hematite to my untrained eye. -- Kevin Heider ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
