[meteorite-list] Georgia Man Finds Meteorite While Picking Butter Beans

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:01 2004
Message-ID: <3FE250DC.491D77C4_at_bhil.com>

Hi,

    Maybe the real moral is that, if we want to find meteorites, we should
pick more butter beans.
    A lot of things turn up (literally) in a freshly plowed field: indian
artifacts, glacial stones... One of Illinois' eight meteorites was found
that way (WOODBINE).
    I read enviously of the dry lakes when all I have about me is plowed
fields. It's nice to know you could find a meteorite in one.


Sterling K. Webb
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Ron Baalke wrote:

> http://www.statesboroherald.net/topstories/story7.html
>
> Space object lands in Bulloch
>
> Picking beans, farmer finds a meteorite:
> Cannon was picking butter beans when his bean picker
> machine lifted the five and a half pound lump. Cannon tossed
> it aside and kept on working.
>
Received on Thu 18 Dec 2003 08:14:05 PM PST