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Meteorite being exhibited on the town's central plaza In early 1810, on a Holy Saturday , a woman named Cecilia Corredor found the meteorite near the town in the Tocavita Hill. It was moved to the urban center of Santa Rosa de Viterbo, where it served as an anvil in the town's iron foundry for a long time.
By the time the meteorite was returned to Ann following the legal battle with Mrs. Guy, they could not find a buyer, since the excitement of the event had dwindled. In 1956, Mrs. Hodges decided to sell the meteorite to the Alabama Museum of Natural History, [10] [3] against her husband's wishes, and as he recalled, for about $25. [9]
A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a "find". [1] [2] There are more than 1,300 documented falls listed in widely used databases, [3] [4] [5] most of which have specimens in modern collections.
The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms.
Without Warning (also known as July 13th [1]) is an American television film directed by Robert Iscove. [2] It follows a duo of real-life reporters covering breaking news about three meteor fragments crashing into the Northern Hemisphere.
The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492 in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, Further Germany (now France). The meteorite can still be seen in Ensisheim's museum, the sixteenth-century Musée de la Régence.
Patient hunters find more meteorites from California fall (AstroBob April 29, 2012) Robert Wards 44 gram find; Steve Arnold (meteorhntr) photos of 0.38g SM slice; Greg Hupé SM19 (oriented 9.9g) Sutter's Mill photos at ASU (SM6, SM8, SM38, SM41, SM49) (meteorite-list) Video of the daylight California fireball (Phil Plait 31 May 2012)
The Winchcombe meteorite is a rare find, with a similar hydrogen isotope ratio to the water on Earth.. Recovering a meteorite within 12 hours of arrival means it is as pristine a specimen as we ...