Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor

Posted by dnetesn on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:55AM
from the phys.org dept.

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Re:Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor by makmanalp on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:05PM (#16200306)

Isn't the possible landing radius for these things huge (fragmenting 20 miles above earth)? How do people find them in a hurry?

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Re:Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor by rmason on Sunday January 21, 2018 @06:18PM (#16200686)

Thanks to NASA and the use of radar the location was narrowed to a few thousand acres North of Ann Arbor in Hamburg township.

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Re:Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor by macintux on Sunday January 21, 2018 @06:30PM (#16200740)

It helped, I'm sure, that there was a healthy snow cover.

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Re:Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor by ebbv on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:37PM (#16200468)

The article says they used seismic data and eyewitness accounts.

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Re:Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor by jeffdavis on Sunday January 21, 2018 @04:20PM (#16200103)

How much of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs is recoverable?

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Re:Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor by nukenuke on Sunday January 21, 2018 @04:39PM (#16200188)

One challenge there is that it liquified the ground on impact because so much energy was release.

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Re:Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor by trisimix on Sunday January 21, 2018 @05:45PM (#16200525)

Oh yeah I live in detroit my roomate told me about this. Pretty interesting news around here.

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