I read an article recently about a fellow who collects and sells them to Universities and other groups. He gets big bucks - actually really big bucks for them and if I remember correctly we are talking tens of thousands of dollars each.
IMHO you should google this and see what you can find. I wouldn't cut it or do anything with it, including playing with it, until you determine if it is really a meteorite and the potential value of it if it is.
That is just too cool. What an awesome thing to witness first hand. I'm glad that it missed you, but that is just way too cool. Can you say pennies from heaven.
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If you try to file a claim for damages to your roof, they might drop you for living too close to an area where things might fall from space and hit your house.... bah-dum-pum......
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It looks as if it might be what is called a "carbonaceous chondrite". That would be a typical stoney,possibley frangible, visitor from outer space. Call the Smithsonian. There are folks that are interested in what falls and where and when. Make the call.
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I notice that everyone had the same thought as I did.... "Gosh I hope it didn't hit the Airstream!".
Cool that it was small enough not to go through the roof. Whew. But check the roof because the velocity could have dinged it or even pinholed it..... You know how those leaks are.
Hey, if you want to cry there are two Flying Clouds on e-bay right now that would remind you of the one you sold, and I was just traveling through a neighborhood at the northend of Oceana's runway and spotted a nice Globetrotter. There are more and more of them around here, or else I'm just noticing more of them.
Paula
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bah-dum-pum......
Too cool Vern!
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