[meteorite-list] NPA 04-12-1929 Field Museum Shows Tilden, Illinois Meteorite

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Mar 28 17:14:19 2005
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Paper: The Bee
City: Danville, Virginia
Date: Friday, April 12, 1929
Page: 6 (of 12)

FIELD MUSEUM SHOWING BIG ILLINOIS METEORITE

     CHICAGO, Ill., April 12 - (INS) - A piece of the only meteorite ever
recorded as having fallen in Illinois now is on display at the Field Museum
of Natural History here.
     For years astronomers and geologists have been watching for any report
of a meteorite falling of being discovered imbedded in the soil of the
state. The specimen now on display in the museum is a large fragment of a
meteorite which fell in Tilden, a town 45 miles southeast of St. Louis, Mo.,
on July 12, 1927. The meteorite landed in three masses - one weighing 110
pounds, one 45 pounds and one 9 pounds.

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Mark Bostick
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