[meteorite-list] Leake & Goodlett meteorite returned

[Michael Groetz]

http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=11620211


Leake & Goodlett meteorite returned

Associated Press - December 4, 2009 8:24 AM ET

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - A half-ton of space rock has mysteriously
reappeared at a Tupelo building supply store.

Lindsey Leake, the store's co-owner, tells the Northeast Mississippi
Daily Journal that they got a call last month from a person who
claimed to have the meteorite and wanted to return.

The 1,100-pound rock showed up Thursday at the Leake & Goodlett store
on a flatbed truck.

The rock disappeared Nov. 19, 2008.

Leake says the person agreed to return the rock if it would remain
anonymous and if he agreed not to prosecute. Leake agreed.

The meteorite was discovered in 1870 by Tupelo Mayor H.C. "Major"
Medford. It has always been displayed publicly outside Leake &
Goodlett since about 1965.

Leake says he may find some other public spot for it.