19 at the home of Blair's neighbors, Rev. Kent and Lisa Webber, is back in the hands of Peter Jenniskens, a NASA astronomer based in Mountain View. He has made several trips to Novato in the past week and, as of Wednesday night, is convinced that the stone is a meteorite, according to a post on hisbusiness, is now the owner of the first rock, his mother said. When Jenniskens told Lisa Webber that he believed he was incorrect with his initial finding, Webber gave the rock to Rivera, who had helped her determined it was magnetic which led both of them to track down Jenniskens in the first place.
Date: Oct 26, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
California meteorite is meteor-wrong, scientist says
a on Oct. 17.Novato, Calif. resident Lisa Webber, a nurse at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, read about the fireball and recalled hearing a sound on her roof that night. Sure enough, she and neighbors found a ding on the roof and a likely-looking rock in her backyard.
is now the owner of the first rock, his mother said. When Jenniskens told Lisa Webber that he believed he was incorrect with his initial finding, Webber gave the rock to Rivera, who had helped her determined it was magnetic which led both of them to track down Jenniskens in the first place.
The meteorite, smaller than a fist, was discovered Saturday by Lisa Webber, who owns the home with her pastor husband, Rev. Kent Webber. The discovery was announced Sunday morning by Peter Jenniskens, principal investigator for NASA's Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance, at the Webbers' home."I came home from work Wednesday night and didn't know there was a meteor shower," said Lisa Webber. "I was sitting in my kitchen and I heard this boom-badda-boom. Something hit my house. I looked in the garage and there didn't seem to be anything amiss."
Date: Oct 22, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Meteorite Found! Fragment of California Fireball Hit House
Homeowner Lisa Webber, a nurse at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, found the space rock Saturday (Oct. 20), after reading an article aboutthe dazzling Oct. 17 fireballin the San Francisco Chronicle. She recalled hearing a sound on her roof the night the meteor was
Date: Oct 22, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Tiny meteorite fragment strikes home in San Francisco Bay area
Last week, a meteor was spied in the skies over the San Francisco Bay area. A San Francisco Bay resident named Lisa Webber found the small two-inch chunk of meteorite you see in the photo above in her yard. The meteorite fragment struck the roof of her home three days before she found it. Webber sai
"I told him (Jenniskens), 'I am not selling this (the rock) to a meteor market person. This is for science,'" Lisa Webber said. "I want him to have it for as long as he needs it, and then when I get it back, I'll give it to my neighbor's son Glenn (Rivera)," who helped Webber investigate the meteori
The woman, 61-year-old Lisa Webber, heard the meteor hit her roof, and found the rock fragment in her yard three days later. She went searching for it because the local news was reporting that some debris may have been left behind from the earlier meteor shower.