[meteorite-list] Website update: Livingston-Mifflin (prov.), Norton County, and Whetstone Mountains

From: Ruben Garcia <mrmeteorite_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:15:29 -0700
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You have one of coolest website/colections I have ever seen!

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:36 AM, The Tricottet Collection
<tricottetcoll at live.com> wrote:
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> A few updates on the virtual museum of the Tricottet Collection:
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> LIVINGSTON-MIFFLIN (prov.)
> http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/met_livingston.html
> On April 14, 2010, a bolide lit up the sky over southwest Wisconsin. It was seen and heard by residents across a wide area and captured on numerous video cameras. Soon after, meteorites started to be found by locals and meteorite hunters. The most interesting story linked to this meteorite fall, and certainly the most mediatized, is that stones fell over the Iowa-Grant Elementary-Middle School...
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> NORTON COUNTY
> http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/met_nortoncounty.html
> On the afternoon of February 18, 1948, an explosion was heard by the residents of Norton, Kansas. The blast was large enough to shake buildings and crack a few windows and most of the population of Norton and neighboring towns were out in the street within seconds. While it was first believed that a plane had crashed, after new reports of the event from places spanning from south Kansas to Nebraska, it was recognized in the evening that the explosion had been far greater than could have been caused by a plane. The phenomenon was in fact a meteor disintegrating at high altitude...
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> WHETSTONE MOUNTAINS
> http://www.thetricottetcollection.com/met_whetstonemountains.html
> On the evening of June 23, 2009, a fireball crossed the night sky of Arizona. It was seen and heard by a number of residents and recorded on cameras. What followed was a thorough investigation of the possible fall site by local resident and meteorite collector J. Schrader. His investigation talents paid off almost immediately since he found the first meteorite, a 155.6-gram complete stone, only two days after its arrival on Earth...
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Received on Sat 26 Jun 2010 11:15:29 AM PDT