[meteorite-list] Meteorite Second To Hit Bloomington

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/03/05/news/doc45ecabc3df462539821993.txt

Meteorite second to hit Bloomington
By Roger Miller
Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois
March 5, 2007

BLOOMINGTON - A piece of the sky has fallen on Bloomington before.

On a summer night in 1938, the Rev. Luther Cox and his family were
listening to the radio at their home at 301 Howard St., according to an
account on the Web site of Meteoritical Society, an international group
dedicated to studying meteorites and planetary sciences. Between 9 and
10 p.m., they heard a noise on the back porch.

The next morning, Cox found a rock that had split in two on impact. The
two pieces weighed a total of about 2.3 ounces.

His young son, Henry, placed the two pieces in his rock collection. In
later years, the son, then grown up and a minister himself, exhibited
the pieces at numerous summer camps as a possible meteorite.

He had the rock analyzed in 1973 by an expert at John Deere Planetarium
at Augustana College, Rock Island. He verified it as a stone meteorite.
A piece was sent to Field Museum in Chicago for further study.