(meteorobs) Meteorite hits tractor

[Hui Gao]

A small question as my starting post.
Who would be the owner of that meteorite?
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Hui Gao
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From: "David Entwistle" <david.entwistle at dial.pipex.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 7:52 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) Meteorite hits tractor


> >From the Edmonton Sun
> 
> http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2005/07/27/1149239-sun.html
> 
> FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. -- An unusual rock that fell out of the sky, through
> a shed and into a tractor earlier this month appears to be a meteorite,
> says a director with the Geological Survey of Canada. 
> 
> After viewing photographs taken of the stone, Alan Galley said the rock
> has the characteristics of a "stony meteorite" created by the gradual
> collection of space dust. 
> 
> "It's actually the process in which the planets formed where you get
> dust from space that agglomerate together. If it happens enough you have
> a planet, but in other cases you have a meteorite," said Galley,
> speaking from the federal government agency's office in Ottawa. 
> 
> An afternoon picking strawberries took a bizarre twist for Adeline Kelly
> on July 17 when a chunk of rock plummeted from the sky, penetrating the
> tin roof of a shed and piercing the manifold of a tractor on her and her
> husband's Montney ranch, just north of Fort St. John. The stone bounced
> several times after landing. Adeline searched for the object and
> eventually found a small, rough-surfaced black and grey stone with
> specks of diamond-like material embedded in it. Part of the stone had
> shattered, but much of it was still intact...
> 
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