To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 05:24:44 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] more on the NZ meteorite
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Further checking on the Auckland NZ meteorite turned up some additional
facts and scientific opinion.  The velocity at impact was estimated at
'more than 300 feet per second', it was hot to the touch when it landed,
and it's black and shaped somewhat like a fat pillow, though grapefruit
sized.  Scientists think it may have been the size of a basketball and
moving at 15,000 meters per second when it entered the atmosphere, and
that it is 4.5 billion years old.

No mention in either article of whether it was wet, nor of the advice to
dry it in an oven.  The couple has been besieged with calls from
meteorite enthusiasts.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9835758%5E663,0
0.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/06/14/wmet14.xm
l&sSheet=/news/2004/06/14/ixnewstop.html

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