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(meteorobs) FWD: S&T's News Bulletin for June 19, 1998 (excerpts)
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METEORITE HOUSE CALLS
Cosmic debris paid some house calls last Saturday morning. One tennis ball-
size stone plunged through the roof of a home in Nashville, Tennessee, at
about 9 a.m. and lodged in a mattress. (The residents were not in the bed
at the time.) There were additional falls on that same morning in New
Mexico. At least three fragments were found in Portales, in the eastern
part of the state, near the Texas border. One hunk crashed through a barn.
The University of New Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics will be holding a
press conference on Monday to provide additional details.
MORE METEORITE HUNTING
Elsewhere in the Southwest, the hunt is on to find meteorites from a fireball
that exploded earlier in the month. David A. Kring (University of Arizona)
analyzed numerous eyewitness reports to identify a region around Gila Bend
and Casa Grande as the likely locales to find cosmic debris. The first
field survey on June 15th came up empty, but future outings may have better
luck. Kring and his colleagues estimate that the object was somewhere
between football and desk size before it exploded.
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