[meteorite-list] Largest Meteorite Now in North America????

From: Rick Nowak <internationalmeteoritesociety_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:54:10 2004
Message-ID: <20020223160809.74470.qmail_at_web21007.mail.yahoo.com>

The Midnight Meteorite- This is a 19 TON unclassified
not catalogued meteorite!!! Would this be the largest
meteorite in North America??? I thought the largest in
America was found in Nebraska at 2,360 pounds.If so
let me know.IMS contacted the city major of Lynchburg
and asked for 246 grams of the meteorite for testing
and classification. We came upon this meteorite while
conducting meteorite recovery efforts via the
internet. Here is the write up. Pictures of the dig
and the meteorite itself can be seen at the url at the
bottom. Check out the world’s only zero gravity
cavern-wow!!


The Midnight Meteorite
It came from out of nowhere on the night of June 12,
1886, missing the newly-dedicated Court House by only
fifty yards, landing in an adjacent vacant lot. The
violent impact woke up the whole town, and left a
crater approximately 25 feet deep. In the weeks that
followed, the 19-ton meteorite was excavated (see
photo, left) and moved to its current location on the
East bank of the James River at the foot of Ninth
Street. In 1912, The Daughters of the American
Revolution attached a plaque to the heavenly body,
marking the site of John Lynch's Ferry and Lynchburg's
first house.

http://www.retroweb.com/lynchburg/attractions/


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Received on Sat 23 Feb 2002 11:08:09 AM PST