[meteorite-list] NPA 04-29-1960: Planetarium looks for meteorites at Al Mitterling's hometown

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Dec 19 12:01:02 2004
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Paper: The Herald-Press
City: St. Joseph, Michigan
Date: Friday, April 29, 1960
Page: 6

Planetarium Seeks Pieces Of Space Rock

     The director of Chicago's Alder Planetarium, using information supplied
by Herald-Press readers is in Warsaw, Ind., today with hopes of finding
fragments of a fiery bolide which streaking across the southern sky last
Thursday night.
     The planetarium's staff astronomer, Frank Jettner, said today that
Director Robert I. Johnson is touring the area southeast of Warsaw in search
of fragments believed to have fallen there after the bolide exploded about
11 p.m. Thursday.
     A bolide is a mass of rock, with perhaps a trace of metal which
ordinarily orbits around the sun. Many astronomers hold the theory that
bolides are parts of a planet that burst hundreds of millions of years ago,
spreading its fragments through space in which the earth now travels.
     Jettner said the search for bolide fragments is a lust for the Alder
planetarium and that Johnson has a good chance of finding some fragments.
     Johnson will attempt to interest residents of the Warsaw area in
reporting any unusual rocks they find, Jettner said.
     The director believes that by finding fragments of the bolide he may
help prove or disprove scientific theories concerning these apparent
offshots from a vanished planet.

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