[meteorite-list] Tornado snatches 1,000 pound pallasite meteorite

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 23:54:10 -0500
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http://www.kbsd6.com/Global/story.asp?S=6475057

Tornado snatches 1,000 pound pallasite meteorite

GREENSBURG, Kan. The tornado that razed the Kansas town of Greensburg also
snatched one of its most valuable treasures. The thousand-pound Brenham
pallasite meteorite is gone.
Greensburg has drawn world-class meteorite hunters for decades to this remote
Kansas hamlet. Trooper Ronald Knoefel says even the town's own extensive
meteorite collection is gone.

And the town's other claim to fame -- the world's largest hand dug well -- is
buried under a mountain of debris.

The nearby gift shop for the attraction had housed the famous meteorite.
Received on Sun 06 May 2007 12:54:10 AM PDT