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20.52 gram part slice with crust.   L6

TKW 1455 grams. Observed fall 10 December 1984, Evans County, Georgia, USA.


 


Anne writes:
From the MetBul:

A grapefruit sized stone, completely covered with thin black fusion crust, fell damaging a metal mail box and making a depression less than 30 cm in diameter in loose dirt. Two persons standing 36 m from where it landed and two others inside a mobile home about 20 m away reported a whistling sound followed by crash and a thud as the stone fell.




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Tracy Latimer
 6/12/2024 5:51:10 PM		 Not to be confused with Claxton fruitcake, too crunchy :D
John Divelbiss
 6/11/2024 3:39:50 PM		 special delivery right to your mailbox from above :/
Anne Black
 6/11/2024 1:28:50 PM		 Sorry John, it is not mine, but it could be made available, if you really want to "improve" it. ;-)
John lutzon
 6/11/2024 11:47:02 AM		 4&5 show it very nicely. Any way to gently abate the oxidation? Call that strike in, I'll provide coordinates and my own whistling. Thank you.
Mike Murray
 6/11/2024 8:15:45 AM		 How to shorten up your mailbox, call in an airstrike from a L6.
Bernd Pauli
 6/11/2024 4:27:39 AM		 Sky & Telescope, March 1985, p. 222: The fall was investigated by Harold Povenmire of the Florida Fireball Patrol. He reports that the meteorite is a light gray chondrite with a very thin black fusion crust and a high concentration of magnetic metal. Its shape and the impact marks on the mailbox, he says, indicate it was falling vertically.
 

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