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RE: Wisconsin Fireball

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A Howard family may have discovered a meteorite from last week's fireball that could be worth thousands.
Shea Gorzelanczyk was fascinated after he saw video of the meteor flash that lit up the Midwest skies April 14. Along with his three kids and a metal detector, he stumbled upon his finding just west of Mineral Point on Sunday.
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VIDEO: Meteorite Fragments on Display 4-20-10

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At least five pieces of the meteorite that fell in SW Wisconsin last week are on display at the UW-Geology Museum for public viewing.
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Parts of Midwest meteorites found

Two Illinois teens and a man from Southwestern Wisconsin believe they've recovered fragments from a meteor that lit up Midwestern skies earlier this week.
One rock, claimed to be found within 22 hours of the fall, was picked up by Christopher and Evan Boudreaux of Lake Forest. The 13- and 17-year-old boys drove six hours with their father, a professional collector, to Livingston, Wis. and were given the rock by a farmer.
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'A feeding frenzy' for meteor hunters

Galena scientist is handicapped by 2 things in his hunt for chunks of space fragments: Trying to find some before others and trying to ditch the 'dealers and collectors.
Paul Sipiera is a scientist, not a celebrity.
Nonetheless, the Galena, Ill., resident spent the weekend ducking behind trees and leading wild goose chases through gravel quarries in efforts to detract his groupies.
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The Wisconsin farmers were happy to oblige when the Lake Forest collector and others began asking to wade through their cornfields Thursday. But by Monday, after four days of searching, some farmers were losing patience with the scientists and amateur collectors who descended on them after a meteor exploded in the northern Midwest sky last week.
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At least five pieces of the meteorite that fell in southwestern Wisconsin last week will be on display at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum for public viewing Tuesday, April 20 through this weekend.
Each piece is approximately the size of an unshelled peanut and is partially covered with a thin "fusion crust" of dark material that forms when a meteor heats up as it passes through Earth's atmosphere.
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Scientists at Chicago's Field Museum are examining a rock that might be linked to last week's meteor shower.
People across the Midwest reported seeing a giant flash of light in the sky last week and one local man said he thinks he found a piece of a meteor in southern Wisconsin.
Terry Boudreaux is a collector who found what he believes are two small meteorites, which he handed over to the Field Museum's collection Monday morning.
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When Ruben Garcia saw video of the meteorite that streaked across the Wisconsin sky on Wednesday night, it might as well have been the Bat-Signal.
The professional meteorite hunter, known to many as Mr. Meteorite, was in his car the next day, driving from his home in Phoenix, bound for Iowa County to look for every chunk of that meteorite he could find.
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