[meteorite-list] Louisville Meteorite Newspaper Articles

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Lethbridge Herald
City: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Date: Saturday, February 5, 1977
Page: 2


Meteor fragment found

     WASHINGTON (AP) - Searchers found a third fragment of a meteorite 
Friday which exploded earlier in the week over Louisville, Ky., a rare event 
in a populated area.
     A large chunk of the biggest fragment, a dark grey rock about five 
inches in diameter and weighing 2.31 pounds, was sent to the atomic 
installation at Richland, Wash., for analysis.
     "This is the first time ever that analytical work has been done so 
quickly," said Graham Hunt, professor of geology at the University of 
Louisville.
     "They tell us that this will be the earliest research ever, which will 
help us understand better the change from one element to another, which we 
call radioactivity."

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Paper: Kennebec Journal
City: Augusta, Maine
Date: Saturday, February 19, 1977
Page: 3


     LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - When a meteorite exploded over Louisville two 
weeks ago, scientists thought they might find scores of fragments.  They 
asked the public to help.  Now they're having second thoughts.
     "I've got pieces of pavement, coal, rocks, fossilized coral, pieces of 
black-top roads, limestone, thing like that." says astronomy Prof. Tom 
Boone, of the University of Louisville.
     "One lady about 65 brought in a great big lump of coal, eight inches by 
four inches.  One person brought in fool's good. How they found that I don't 
know.  Some of them have wanted money and others haven't.  Some of the calls 
were caused by greed, and other people were just interested." Boone said.

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Clear Skies,
Mark Bostick
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