An unearthly story

Look out above!

Heads up!

Run for your lives, the sky is falling!

Any such calls of fear seem to be appropriate if you’re hanging

out with Eastbluff resident Rick Gorski.

Gorski believes he found a meteorite in the Back Bay this month.

The rock is about the size of a human skull, weighs 16 pounds and has

a reddish-orange sheen on parts of it.

It has a mostly smooth surface with a few pock marks, bits of

metal and what appears to be melted sand particles on it.

The trouble is, he hasn’t been able to prove it. Because of the

holidays, there aren’t any experts around to confirm his claim.

What the Pilot was able to learn maybe isn’t much help. Said Don

Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near Earth Object Program Office at the

Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena: “They’re perfectly harmless

unless they hit you on the head. An Egyptian dog was killed and a

lady in New York had one go through the trunk of her car.”

Yikes. Whether Gorski’s find turns out to be out of this world, at

least residents of Newport-Mesa have avoided those fates.