Not saying the chemical was present at the site of the fall, but the scent
of new mown hay is a description for the odor of phosgene, an extremely
toxic gas which contains chlorine and oxygen, but not sulfur, and which was
used as a chemical warfare agent in WWI.
Mark
Mark Grossman
Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510
----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Paulson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] sulphurous smell of meteorites (wasTemperature
of meteorites)
A friend of mine is having problems posting to the list, so I am
trying to do that for him...
M Paulson
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From: Brian Moore
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 3:55 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: sulphurous smell of meteorites
Dear List:
When Murray Paulson and I came across the fellow who found the 7 kg
Buzzard Coulee there was a distinct smell, to me at least. There was a
hint of something sulphurous but more kind of a organic swampy smell.
Then for some reason a scent of new-mown hay popped into my mind.
We came about 10 minutes after the meteorite had been pulled out the
shallow hole it had created.
Murray took a picture and I took down the GPS coordinates.
For a great picture of the event see Bruce McCurdy's Buzzard web site:
skyriver.ca/astro/bruce/meteorite.htm
This was 12 days after the meteor fell in frozen winter conditions.
-Brian Moore
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