-- Matt Morgan Colorado Geological Survey -and- Mile High Meteorites http://www.mhmeteorites.com "To interrogate nature... that is where the fun is." -Carl Sagan
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- To: Matt Morgan <mmorgan@du.edu>
- Subject: Sky Stone article from Earthweek in the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel
- From: Lee Morgan <morlee@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 21:51:49 -0700
- Reply-To: morlee@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu
A 53 pound boulder fell from the sky into a garden in Russia's Kostroma region, about 200 miles northeast of Moscow. Konstantin Nechayev, a resident of Ikonnikova village, says the impact created a three-foot deep crater as it crashed into the ground with a "whip and grinding sound similar to that of a bullet fired from a hunting rifle." He dug out the skull-shaped stone to find it cool to the touch and split in two, revealing an apple-size cavity at its core. Government officials measured the radiation level of the rock but found nothing unusual. The probable meteorite was sent to the Ministry of the Interior to be analyzed.
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