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Although the meteorite had crashed through the Hodges home and hit Mrs. Hodges, the owner of the house, Birdie Guy, declared ownership. [8] After a year-long legal battle, [7] Mrs. Guy and the Hodgeses agreed on a $500 settlement and Mrs. Hodges was able to keep the meteorite. [8] Ann Hodges had immense, although short-term, attention for the ...
The Auckland meteorite, also known as the Ellerslie meteorite, [2] landed in Ellerslie, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, on 12 June 2004. It crashed through the roof of a house and landed in the living room. As the ninth meteorite to ever be discovered in New Zealand, it is the only one to have ever hit a house in the country.
A slice of the meteorite, the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, DC. The day after the fall, local farmer Julius McKinney came upon the second-largest fragment from the same meteorite. [10] An Indianapolis-based lawyer bought it for the Smithsonian Institution. [10] The McKinney family was able to use the money to buy a car ...
The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинский метеорит, Chelyabinskii meteorit) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere.
After a 4.5-billion-year journey through space, a car-size rock fell to Earth on October 7, 2008 — and it contained a bunch of tiny diamonds.
The reason may be, at least partly, price. Toledano declined to disclose how much the fragment used for the B/1M cost, but he noted that raw meteorite can sell for more, per gram, than gold.
At least two houses in Park Forest were struck, as well as the fire station. In the following days, this event was officially named the Park Forest meteorite, as numerous stones or fragments were recovered in the area. The total mass recovered is above 18 kilograms (40 lb) and the single largest stone is about 3 kilograms (6.6 lb). [2]
Carbonaceous chondrites often contain water, clay and carbon-bearing compounds and make up the majority of rocks in space, but only about 5% of the meteorites that fall to Earth belong to this ...