WNBC-TV here in N.Y. showed a clip of the rock yesterday, no fusion
crust that I could see. Pretty clean looking for a fresh fall. Looked
kind of like an iron but no fusion crust was visible to me at least.
I'm no expert by any means. Definitely caught my ear as they talked
about the story at first.
Regards and Happy new year to all
Tom
On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Ron Baalke wrote:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_Fallen_Object.html
Metal object crashes through N.J. home
By CHRIS NEWMARKER
ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 3, 2007
[photo]
A metal, rock-like object about the size of a golf ball is seen in
this undated photograph provided by Det. R. Gelber of Freehold
Township
Police Department in Freehold Township, N.J., Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007.
Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13
ounces,
crashed into the a Monmouth County home Tuesday night. Federal
officials
sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft. (AP Photo/ Det. R.
Gelber of Freehold township Police Department )
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- A metal, rock-like object about the size
of a
golf ball and weighing nearly as much as a can of soup crashed through
the roof of a Monmouth County home, and authorities on Wednesday were
trying to figure out what it was.
Nobody was injured when the oblong object, weighing more than 13
ounces,
crashed into the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night.
Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft.
The rough-feeling object, with a metallic glint, was displayed
Wednesday
by police. "There's some great interest in what we have here," said
Lt.
Robert Brightman. "It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything
like it
in my career."
He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but
declined to name the other agencies whose help he said he had
enlisted.
Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object had
punched a hole in the roof of a single-family, two-story home, damaged
tiles on a bathroom floor below and then bounced, sticking into a
wall.
The object was heavier than a usual metal object of that size, said
Brightman, who added that no radioactivity was detected.
Brightman would not disclose the address of the house or the names of
the people who lived there, citing the family's desire to not talk to
the media. He would only say that the couple and their adult son
live in
a township housing development.
Brightman said one man who lives at the home found the object at
about 9
p.m. Tuesday after returning from work and hearing from his mother
that
something had crashed through the roof a few hours before.
The Federal Aviation Administration, which sent investigators to the
town, did not know where the object came from, said spokeswoman Arlene
Murray.
"It's definitely not an aircraft part," she said. "I can't speak
beyond
that as to what it might be."
Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the
entire
planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers
University.
"It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven," said
Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the Monmouth County
home.
"These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal."
Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if
the object were a meteorite.
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