* Astronomy

The stone passed two witnesses, Brodie Spaulding and Brian Kinzie, who observed it land 3.56 m in front of them on the lawn in front of a house. No light or sound except for the whirring sound as it passed and the thud in the ground was noticed. It is an oriented specimen with well-developed flight markings, weight 483.7 g. Large white H6-clasts have olivine Fa20, pyroxene Fs18-20, mean 19, the H4-host has olivine Fa16-21, mean 19, pyroxene Fs 7-22, mean 17, PMD 2%, thin section, classification and analysis, M. E. Zolensky, NASA Johnson Space Centre, Code SN2, Houston, Texas 77058, USA. Information, M. E. Lipschutz, Dept. Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1393, USA. The main mass will be returned after the analyses to the finder, B. Spaulding.
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