[meteorite-list] NPA 11-04-1981 Boy Sees Meteorite Land In Backyard

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: Gettysburg Times
City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 1981
Page: 13

Boy sees meteorite land in backyard

     NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (AP) - A 13-year-old junior astronomer is the owner 
of a baseball-size meteorite that he watched fall from the sky and land in 
his family's vegetable garden.
     Anthony M. Sarkis Jr. an eighth grader, says he was adjusting his 
telescope in his front yard Halloween night when he spotted a red fire-ball 
shoot across the sky and disappear behind his house.  Then he heard a boom 
as loud as a shotgun blast.
      When he went in the backyard to investigate, there, in the garden, was 
a crater a foot wide and 4 inches deep.  And inside the hole was a glowing 
red rock.
      Sankis summoned his parents and called the police.  He was later 
visited by Mayor Richard C. Lamb and William G. Seeley, a physics professor 
at North Adams State College.
     "Not in a dozen lifetimes will you see this" Seeley told the boy. "This 
is a rare occasion. You should be proud of yourself."

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Mark Bostick
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