[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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