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>From: Ron Baalke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com (Meteorite Mailing List)
>Subject: [meteorite-list] Backyard Crater in Rhode Island Spawns Questions
>Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:01:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2005/07/13/news/news3.txt
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>BACKYARD CRATER SPAWNS QUESTIONS
>By Emily Dupuis
>The Westerly Sun (Rhode Island)
>July 13, 2005
>
>WESTERLY - Ted Davidson woke early Saturday to find a small crater -
>what he believes could be the impact of a meteorite - in his South Woody
>Hill Road home's backyard.
>
>Investigating the hole, measuring roughly 2-feet across and 5-feet deep,
>Davidson, 57, said he doesn't believe it was caused by animals,
>lightning, or "blue ice" falling from an airplane.
>
>Citing reports of a meteor shower that night, he said he believes a golf
>ball- or marble-sized meteorite - or "piece of space junk" - may have
>plummeted into the yard from a northern angle.
>
>"It must have been quite an explosion," he said Monday. The impact sent
>grass and dirt flying several feet away, he added, pointing to some soil
>scattered across the lawn and tufts of grass splattered roughly 7 feet
>up on an Oak tree several feet away. Soil from the forest floor hidden 7
>to 8 inches beneath the lawn churned to the top.
>
>While he's curious to learn what object may be buried within, Davidson
>has left the area cordoned off until astronomers at the University of
>Rhode Island and Brown University reply to messages he left over the
>weekend. He also planned to call the Seagrave Memorial Observatory in
>Scituate.
>
>Davidson said he suspects the meteorite fell sometime after midnight. He
>and his wife Nadine did not hear anything before heading to bed around
>10:30 p.m. Friday.
>
>Had the object traveled 30 feet closer, the couple said their house
>could have been struck.
>
>"It could have gone right through the bedroom," Nadine Davidson said.
>
>After living in the home for around 17 years, the Davidsons said they
>have never seen or heard of a falling object landing nearby.
>
>"The most exciting thing we have is lightning striking in the woods. And
>I don't think this was lightning," Davidson said.
>
>He discovered the hole as he left to fish around 5:30 a.m., and first
>thought one of his chickens or another animal dug it. Lightning would
>have been attracted to the nearby trees or artisan's well and blue ice
>from an airplane restroom would have left visible remnants, he said.
>
>His metal detector beeps when hovered over the crater.
>
>"There's definitely something in there," he said, estimating a foot and
>a half down.
>
>Should scientists find anything, Davidson said he hopes to keep it.
>
>"That's worth a lot of money - a piece of space," he said.
>
>"I just wish I had been sitting on my porch and I would have seen it,"
>he added. "Who else has a meteorite land in their yard?"
>
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