Wonderful find !
It reminds me of the Alby-sur-Cheran french eucrite which fell in 2002 on the roof of an industry building.
"In the morning of Monday March 18, 2002 by a rainy weather, at 0830 hrs, a storekeeper warns the discoverer of the meteorite that there's a water leakage in the storeroom of the factory. One of his colleague, M. Petit, goes immediately on the roof and discovers a hole in the bitumen of the roof. He temporarily stops it with rag, adhesive and covers it with a plate with bitumen and he contacts a company to make final repair.
On friday March 22, 2002, the discoverer, M. Bouchet, was on the roof of the factory t omake a control of the work. Before setting out again, he looks at the hole, removes the protection and he finds a kind of black stone with a broken part which lets see a grey matter. The aspect of "stone", the geographical situation (in height) of the building and the "force" necessary to create this hole immediately convinced him that it could be a a meteorite. It was 1145hrs. A second piece of 13g is found in the afternoon and sent to the Museum in Paris for an analysis.
According to Mr. Bouchet, the fall had to occur between the 4 and on February 12, 2002. 21 other micro fragments were recovered later on in the roof, carrying the total mass of this fall with 256.01g."
Pierre-Marie PELE
www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com
www.meteor-center.com
It reminds me of the Alby-sur-Cheran french eucrite which fell in 2002 on the roof of an industry building.
"In the morning of Monday March 18, 2002 by a rainy weather, at 0830 hrs, a storekeeper warns the discoverer of the meteorite that there's a water leakage in the storeroom of the factory. One of his colleague, M. Petit, goes immediately on the roof and discovers a hole in the bitumen of the roof. He temporarily stops it with rag, adhesive and covers it with a plate with bitumen and he contacts a company to make final repair.
On friday March 22, 2002, the discoverer, M. Bouchet, was on the roof of the factory t omake a control of the work. Before setting out again, he looks at the hole, removes the protection and he finds a kind of black stone with a broken part which lets see a grey matter. The aspect of "stone", the geographical situation (in height) of the building and the "force" necessary to create this hole immediately convinced him that it could be a a meteorite. It was 1145hrs. A second piece of 13g is found in the afternoon and sent to the Museum in Paris for an analysis.
According to Mr. Bouchet, the fall had to occur between the 4 and on February 12, 2002. 21 other micro fragments were recovered later on in the roof, carrying the total mass of this fall with 256.01g."
Pierre-Marie PELE
www.encyclopedia-of-meteorites.com
www.meteor-center.com
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