[meteorite-list] This day in meteorite history [Canon City]

From: Dark Matter <freequarks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:14:53 -0600
Message-ID: <822da19a0810280614l42f03c77wad19069fdb53408_at_mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

There are three pics of the Canon City meteorite in my October
Accretion Desk article in the Meteorite Times at:

http://www.meteorite-times.com/Back_Links/2008/june/Accretion_Desk.htm

The pic of the 53g piece has wood scars on its crust.

Cheers,

Martin




On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Greg Catterton
<star_wars_collector at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The Canon City Meteorite
> On the evening of Oct. 27, 1973, a meteorite hurtled through the sky in Canon City, Colo. It landed on a garage, tearing a six-inch hole in the roof and leaving a two-inch gash in the garage's cement floor. The meteorite, which weighed 1.4 kg at the time of impact, was classified as a chondrite, a stony meteorite that is the most common type to hit Earth. According to scientist Glenn Huss, who was director of the American Meteorological Laboratory at the time, the Canon City meteorite originated 60 million miles away, in an asteroid belt.
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> At the time, it was only the third meteorite in Colorado to be discovered shortly after landfall. Upon impact, the meteorite broke into four large pieces and more than 50 fragments. A 2001 report named the Canon City meteorite as only one of 35 meteorites to hit a man-made structure in the United States.
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