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The meteorite was confiscated by the Sylacauga police chief, who then turned it over to the United States Air Force. [7] Both the Hodgeses and their landlord, Bertie Guy, claimed ownership of the rock, Guy's claim being that it had fallen on her property. [7] The Hodgeses and Guy settled, with the Hodgeses paying $500 for the rock. [7]
Date: 15 February 2013; 11 years ago (): Time: 09:20:29 YEKT (): Location: Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia: Coordinates: 1]: Also known as: Chelyabinsk meteorite [2]: Cause: Meteor air burst: Non-fatal injuries: 1,491 indirect injuries [3]: Property damage: Over 7,200 [4] buildings damaged, collapsed factory roof, shattered windows, $33 million (2013 USD) lost [5]: The Chelyabinsk meteor ...
The radio that was hit by the meteorite was later loaned to the American Museum of Natural History in 2005 by Eugene Hodges, fifty years after the impact event. [ 10 ] The titular poem in Space Struck by Paige Lewis was inspired by the event, describing its aftermath from Hodges' point of view.
A model of the alleged object, created for Unsolved Mysteries, is on display near the Kecksburg fire station.. The Kecksburg UFO incident occurred on December 9, 1965, at Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, United States, when a fireball was reported by citizens of six U.S. states and Canada over Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario.
These features were caused by the collision of meteors (consisting of large fragments of asteroids) or comets (consisting of ice, dust particles and rocky fragments) with the Earth. For eroded or buried craters, the stated diameter typically refers to the best available estimate of the original rim diameter, and may not correspond to present ...
PHOTO: A view of stargazing as Quadrantids meteor showers peak, at Pigeon Point Light Station in Pescadero, Calif., Jan. 4, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)
As the meteor, traveling at a speed of about 14 km/s (8.7 mi/s), entered the atmosphere, it began to break apart, and the fragments fell together, some burying themselves 6 metres (20 ft) deep. [3] At an altitude of about 5.6 km (3.5 mi), the largest mass apparently broke up in an explosion called an air burst .
The Middlesboro crater is located in the Appalachian Mountains, between the Cumberland Mountains and Pine Mountain.It forms part of the string of geological features that made the Cumberland Gap a critical westward passage during the settlement of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.