Re: (meteorobs) Hot Meteorite

To: <meteorobs@jovian.com>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Hot Meteorite
From: Trimson@aol.com
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:29:19 EDT
Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
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Hi Barbara,

I am a student at Texas A&M, and I operate a website dedicated to meteorites among other things. It is POSSIBLE that a witnessed fall could be hot, but more likely that a metallic meteorite lying in the sun all day is the case. They cool surprisingly slow, so what is withing the realm of possibility is anyone's guess. On my website, I include information on how you can look at a specimen and determine if it might or might not be a meteorite. Determination by chemical analysis and spectrographic readings are more final, but my site has some good "rules of thumb." As I say on my site, I offer testing and identification services. Any opportunity to scientifically study meteorites is welcomed. Thanks for writing, please check out:

www.meteors.com

Thanks
Duane Penshorn
College Station TX
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