[meteorite-list] Louisville Meteorite Newspaper Articles

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Oct 9 15:41:48 2004
Message-ID: <BAY4-F68yfogkJXrRjb00002d5d_at_hotmail.com>

Paper: Lethbridge Herald
City: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date: Saturday, February 5, 1977
Page: 2


Meteor fragment found

     WASHINGTON (AP) - Searchers found a third fragment of a meteorite
Friday which exploded earlier in the week over Louisville, Ky., a rare event
in a populated area.
     A large chunk of the biggest fragment, a dark grey rock about five
inches in diameter and weighing 2.31 pounds, was sent to the atomic
installation at Richland, Wash., for analysis.
     "This is the first time ever that analytical work has been done so
quickly," said Graham Hunt, professor of geology at the University of
Louisville.
     "They tell us that this will be the earliest research ever, which will
help us understand better the change from one element to another, which we
call radioactivity."

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Paper: Kennebec Journal
City: Augusta, Maine
Date: Saturday, February 19, 1977
Page: 3


     LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - When a meteorite exploded over Louisville two
weeks ago, scientists thought they might find scores of fragments. They
asked the public to help. Now they're having second thoughts.
     "I've got pieces of pavement, coal, rocks, fossilized coral, pieces of
black-top roads, limestone, thing like that." says astronomy Prof. Tom
Boone, of the University of Louisville.
     "One lady about 65 brought in a great big lump of coal, eight inches by
four inches. One person brought in fool's good. How they found that I don't
know. Some of them have wanted money and others haven't. Some of the calls
were caused by greed, and other people were just interested." Boone said.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
www.meteoritearticles.com
Received on Sat 09 Oct 2004 03:40:10 PM PDT