[meteorite-list] NP Article, 08-1946 Norton Main Mass Found

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:27 2004
Message-ID: <OE17krZxfSQGfN4NvVT000190b0_at_hotmail.com>

Paper: The Bradford Era
City: Bradford, Pa
Date: Saturday Mourning, August 21, 1948
Page: 1

Largest Fragment of Meteorite Found

     Norton, Kas. - (AP) - The world's largest fragment of an achondritic
meteorite has been discovered 12 miles north of this northwest Kansas town,
a Univeristy of New Mexico professor said friday.
     Dr. Lincoln La Paz one of a group of scientists who found the
meteorite, announced this discovery.
     The fragment is 39 inches long and wide and about 18 inches thick, Dr.
La Paz said, and weighs about 1,000 pounds. It still is at the bottom of
the eight foot deep crater it plowed into a field when it fell to earth. A
heavy wooden fence has been erected around the crater to discourage the
curious.
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