Hello list,
This story, in my very humble opinion, is rubbish. But I tried to convince
myself and phoned the newspaper that has published it first. No detailled
answer yet, the lady said "the stone is beeing inspected", did not know by
whom. I will later try again to speak with one of the responsibles of the
article. Will let you know if I learn something new!
Cheers, Jan
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Datum: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:26:22 +0200
Von: "Martin Altmann" <[email protected]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Boy?
Yep,
but the headlines are changing, sometimes to a super-dramatic "Teen
Survives
direct hit from a 30,000 mph space rock"
and also the details in the story get embroidered.
Sometimes the boy was going home, sometimes he tried to catch the school
bus. Completley new is, that his ears were ringing for hours after the
fall
happened.
And his scar id getting longer, the "crater" broader and the "meteorite"
faster and faster! (record I read was 250,000 mph).
So far I remember only one article in English language, where a critical
voice was heard - when somebody asked Darryll Pitt.
A clarification or disclaimer we never will read.
As after the news has lost its sensation and is getting old, it will be
over.
Like it was with the Grandma from UK, the girl from UK or Grampa's
arbour
burnt down by meteoritic fire in Germany,
There you never heard about again.
Best!
Martin
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Von: Meteorites USA [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Montag, 15. Juni 2009 17:36
An: Martin Altmann; [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Boy?
Hi Martin,
Thanks again for the link...
This story is running rampant across the whole internet. You can't surf
the web without running into this story. And worse... It's all merely
the same thing being repeated and retold all over the web from the
original story. No verification, no reliable test results, and no fact
checking at all. Just rampant rumor... It's dumb that people can't find
out what really happened before posting this story all over. Even
Discovery magazine posted something about it, though in a debunking sort
of way. Normally I would have posted an article on my site about this by
now on something this significant, but without any verification it's
pointless.
Jeez, if it's real then I'm totally stoked! This would be an historical
event to say the least. But either way someone needs to do some
investigation and post the truth about it regardless of what that truth
turns out to be. Too bad I don't speak German, I'd be all over this
story!
Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
Martin Altmann wrote:
Ja but they're changing the story to make it more interesting.
Read from U.K.
"Chemical tests on the rock have now proved it is from outer space.
Ansgar Korte, director of Germany's Walter Hohmann Observatory, said:
"It's
a real meteorite, therefore it is very valuable to collectors and
scientists."
And here is the original, they're referring to:
http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/essen/2009/6/9/news-122291315/de
tail.html
Where Korte is quoted:" If it's really a true meteorite, then the
specimen
will have a certain value for collectors and mineralogists"
And in the following he recommends places, where the stone could be
tested,
whether it is a meteorite.
That story of course is rubbish.
A prank, not more.
Martin
Btw. it seems to be a boy...
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von
Meteorites USA
Gesendet: Freitag, 12. Juni 2009 19:20
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Hits 14 Year Old Girl? Boy?
Hi Listees,
The story has gone worldwide fast... The reports are merely repeating
what the original report stated and from what I can see there is no
verification...
Skeptical? Is anyone else researching this? Maybe one of our German
friends on-list might lend a hand and call the local paper there that
first broke the story and see if they can get an interview with the
boy
to help confirm or verify what actually happened?
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Yahoo News UK:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090612/tod-boy-hit-by-meteorite-travelling-at-3
-870a197.html
Space.com:
http://www.space.com/news/090612-boy-hit-by-meteorite.html
FoxNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525992,00.html
SkyNews.com
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Boy-Hit-On-Arm-By-White-Hot-Mete
orite-From-Outer-Space-Travelling-At-30000mph/Article/200906215302251?lpos=W
orld_News_First_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15302251_
Boy_Hit_On_Arm_By_White-Hot
<http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Boy-Hit-On-Arm-By-White-Hot-Met
eorite-From-Outer-Space-Travelling-At-30000mph/Article/200906215302251?lpos=
World_News_First_Strange_News__Article_Teaser_Region__0&lid=ARTICLE_15302251
_Boy_Hit_On_Arm_By_White-Hot>
Daily Telegraph: Australia
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25625253-5012895,00.html
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Has there been confirmation yet? If... And this is a BIG IF. If this
is
a real story and th boy really did get hit with a meteorite there
could
be more meteorite on th ground. This would be a very famous fall to
recover if it turns out to be verifiable!
Can anyone confirm?
Regards,
Eric Wichman
Meteorites USA
Meteorites USA wrote:
Hi all,
This just in...
Two German news sites report a 14 year old was hit by a meteorite.
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"...A pebble-sized meteorite crashed and burned into Earth, grazing
14-year-old Gerritt Blank while on his way to catch the school
bus..."
Meteor hits boy on way to school
Published: 11 Jun 09 11:46 CET
“At first, I only saw a big, white ball of light. Then, my hand
hurt,
and then it slammed into the street,” he told daily /Westdeutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung/. “After I saw the white light, I felt something
on
my hand.”
The result was a 10-centimetre burn on the back of his left hand, but
Blank knew something special had happened to him.
“I thought the meteor struck me, but it could also be a result from
the heat as it went by me,” he said.
After the intial shock, Blank looked at the glowing rock the left a
sizable crater in Brakeler Wald Street. He then took the iced tea
from
his school lunch and doused his glowing pebble and took it to school
with him.
“At school, I told the story. My classmates believed me,” he said.
His
parents didn’t get to hear the story until the end of the school
day.
Once home, Blank, who plans to focus his studies in science, tested
the round, black object and already found some confirmation the
pebble
is from outer space: like many meteorites, the rock is magnetic.
Approximately 3,000 meteorites hit the Earth’s surface daily.
SOURCE: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090611-19857.html
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Another site reports:
SPACE ATTACK Girl hit by stone from sky
SPACE ATTACK. The girl shows the spot where the stone fell.
A girl from Essen, Germany has been hit by a stone falling from the
sky. The 14-year old said: “I was on my way to school. I saw a white
cone of light. Then my hand started hurting.” The stone made a 10cm
cut in her hand and then fell to the ground. “I poured ice tea over
it
and took it with me,” she said. But where did the stone come from?
Could it be a meteorite? Experts will have to explain.
SOURCE:
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-
ticker/world/2009/06/11/stone-falling-from-space-hits-girl.html
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So is it a boy or a girl? And what is the stone that hit them?
Anyone else have any info?
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