* Astronomy

It's been a little over 17 years ago when the Sprignet Butte Fire burned across those hills, scorching almost 1,200 acres. State fire investigators at first thought it was an arsonist that started those fires. Now there's a chance that the stones that were found by Tony Guillios could've been meteorites that could actually started a good part of that fire.
Dick Pugh with the Cascadia Meteorite Lab is attempting to catalogue every meteorite that's ever landed in Oregon. He says there's about a half dozen so far and the first were actually just a few miles from the rock Tony Found, on Sams Creek near Gold Hill. Actually, several pieces were found mostly by gold miners.
Others have been found near Klamath Falls, in Antelope Valley, and near Lakeview. If the meteorites did start the Sprignet Butte Fire, there may be other pieces still out there. Not hot any more, but perhaps the "smoking guns" fire investigators have been looking for almost two decades.
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