[meteorite-list] Another new meteorite fall!!

From: Mark Langenfeld <mlangen_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:10:00 2004
Message-ID: <200304011816.h31IGFjL075311_at_mail5.mx.voyager.net>

> "Gareth James, a science and divinity teacher at Porthmadoc Grammar
School
> said the meteorite probably originated in the Van Allen belt - an
enormous
> debris field made up of comets and small moons, about a hundred
million
> miles from Earth.

> "Many meteors contain gold or diamonds," said Mr. Jones.
> "They can be very, very valuable.

> Only the hardest ones, made of iron and argon,
> survive their super-hot reentry.

> In a seemingly unrelated event last week in Chicago, Illinois (USA),
> thousands of stone meteorites pelted a wealthy suburb of the "windy
city."

Wow!! And we were annoyed by meteorite "shower!!"

Mark
Received on Tue 01 Apr 2003 01:16:15 PM PST


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