Unfortunately this is not a meteorite. I spoke with the man and he said it was a piece of Asphalt with grass imbedded in it. Someone smashed the skylight and was trying to break in, nothing more! Darn, I would have loved a night or two in Vegas as a business expense! Mike Farmer
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [meteorite-list] Football-Size Rock Crashes Through Roof and Lodgesin Wall in Nevada 'A LOT OF FORCE': Mystery object hits center Substance to be sent to UNLV for analysis By K.C. HOWARD, REVIEW-JOURNAL, Las Vegas http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/May-24-Wed-2006/news/7572899.htm l "On Saturday night, an unidentified object was sent hurtling through the roof at Steven Gleicher's workplace. Was the football-sized object a meteor or perhaps something more common? And perhaps just as puzzling: How could it rip through a thick pane of fiberglass strong enough to hold a human being and then embed itself into a wall? "It could just be a large piece of asphalt because it is grey on the outside and black in the middle," said Gleicher, an administrator at Diagnostic Imaging Southern Nevada, at 3560 E. Flamingo Road, near Pecos Road." ..... rest of article deleted.... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
