[meteorite-list] More backstory on the schoolyard find

From: Fries, Marc D <Marc.D.Fries_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:00:20 -0700
Message-ID: <5B317345-EA1E-41ED-AA87-BCEF061801BF_at_jpl.nasa.gov>

Those kids will never forget this. Magnificent stuff!

Cheers,
Marc Fries


On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richard Kowalski wrote:

> Mike asked me to post this. If the link below does not work, it is
> the same one I posted in my earlier message
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> Richard Kowalski
> Full Moon Photography
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> After Terry Boudreaux and I gave a two hour presentation to more
> than 500 kids at the Grant-Iowa County school yesterday, we asked
> all the kids who was going to hunt for meteorites during recess. Of
> course all the children screamed and raised their hands. Minutes
> later, while news crews were shooting footage and doing interviews
> with us in the schoolyard, a 6 year old boy screamed he found a
> meteorite, which was a beautiful and perfect 100% crusted ~40 gram
> stone.
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> The school went crazy and another stone was found by a young girl a
> little while later. It was amazing to speak to the school, and
> every child there saw or heard the meteorite go overhead. I think
> that all these kids will be searching for meteorites now. The 8th-
> grade science teacher at the school told me he dropped his teaching
> plans for the next week and has moved his classes into researching
> meteorites on the net and doing reports on meteorites and meteorite
> falls. He was so happy at all of this and said that the children are
> so excited to come to class since the fall last week and did not
> want to talk about anything but the meteorite anyway so he went with
> it. I was mobbed by kids wanting to talk about my trips to Africa
> and how to find meteorites, so I think a few old falls may turn up
> on the farms from all this.
>
> To bridge the gap between meteorite dealers and scientific
> institutions, I presented one of the stones I found as a gift to the
> Field Museum for the meteorite collection.
>
> The Mifflin meteorite was great, but pressing projects have forced
> me to leave the strewnfield and go home today, leaving the country
> again tomorrow. Thanks most to Terry for getting this fall so much
> media attention, and to Michael Johnson for tirelessly precessing
> raw photos direct from the field and posting them, the list can now
> see meteorites moments after they are found.
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> Michael Farmer
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> http://video.nbc15.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=4722425&h1=VIDEO%3A%20Mystery%20in%20the%20Sky%3A%20Big%20Find%20at%20Local%20School%204-21-10&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=40656&LaunchPageAdTag=News&fvCatNo=&backgroundImageURL=&activePane=info&rnd=34669097
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