Jupiter Florida resident gets stoned
Bob Walshon, a Jupiter Florida resident claims he was hit in the back by a meteorite.
"I came for the fishing," quipped the 51-year-old Jupiter health care
consultant Monday, recalling why he had moved to the area. "I thought
I'd be getting hit by a bunch of dolphin."
Walshon, who was knocked by the rock six years ago as he was pulling
weeds in front of its house, in northern Jupiter, said "Who did
that?"...But no one was around that he could point a finger at.
The
green and the stone coal of wood-coloured stained by gold were too hot to
handle, it said. Thus it let it cool, then stored him in a drawer.
But Walshon's neighbor, Mike Pollutro, is so certain the rock is a meteorite that he's e-mailed specialists to confirm it.
"So that no one assumes Walshon's local discovery rained from the planet
of the same name, Pollutro pointedly refers to it as the "Jupiter,
Fla." meteorite."
- Peter Krieger
Astronomy
6/21/2006 5:57:35 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00) 
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