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Man Describes Finding a Piece of the Wisconsin Meteorite

Posted April 19, 2010 2:19 PM

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A man who, along with his sons, found a piece of the meteorite from last week's huge fireball describes it for the local news. Very cool, and his piece is really nice! Since it's from a known fall, it'll be worth something, too. I imagine there could be more than 100 kilos of rocks around, but they'll be extremely difficult to find. I hope they can recover a lot of this one.

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04/19/2010 4:13 PM

Wow, and I thought it was exciting when at 16, I found a high Altitude weather balloon/parachute in our Fields.

good story.

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04/19/2010 11:19 PM

ya that's pretty dedicated to find a pebble... but good for him.

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04/20/2010 11:29 AM

Funny part is, when your spend your time working in the fields (on foot or machine), you do find small pieces that don't belong, such as parts from a machine, or small fossils such as snails and clams. But usualy not when actually looking for them.

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