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Nearly four years ago in a flat wheat field in western Kansas, former Wichitan Steve Arnold found a 1,400-pound meteorite.
The search and discovery is one of the subjects of an hour-long special that premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday on the Science Channel.

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In addition to finalising the policy for reception and use of municipal trash carts, Greensburgs City Council reviewed a report from the Big Well Committee that has been working on developing priorities for designing the new museum and visitor centre featuring the tourist attraction.
After stressing the committee had taken pains to talk to the community in recent weeks to get local input as to how the new facility should be put together, City Administrator Steve Hewitt went through the list of the top five criteria to be met in the new site.

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Greensburg avoids major damage from a funnel cloud passing over the town.

A strong storm system that settled across much of western Kansas prompted dozens of tornado warnings Friday but no reports of fatalities or widespread damage.
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A 2007 $5 commemorative coin has been issued in the name of the Cook Islands that not only honours the Brenham Pallasite meteorite, but has a tiny piece of that meteorite imbedded in the coin's surface.
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 The Brenham meteorite, San Antonian Phil Mani's 1,410-pound chunk of space rock that was expected to sell at auction Sunday at Bonhams in New York for up to $700,000, was withdrawn after it drew a top bid of only $200,000.

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The worlds largest intact pallasite meteorite, discovered seven feet below ground in a wheat field near Greensburg, Kan., failed to sell at an auction in New York on Sunday.
Known as the Brenham meteorite, the specimen was uncovered in October 2005 by Steve Arnold, an Arkansas meteor hunter and broker and Wichita native. Bidding for the meteorite, which had been valued at more than $1 million by some experts, didnt meet a reserve price set by the seller and auction house.

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Steve Arnold is driving the yellow Hummer in circles around a Kiowa County wheat field, towing an 18-foot-wide metal detector. For an hour, nothing but silence.
Finally, the detector whines and Arnold slams the brakes. "That is so good," he says.
Arnold jumps out, pinpoints the location with a smaller detector and starts digging.

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Looking for an out-of-this-world conversation starter for your den? A hefty chunk of space debris made a brief stop in Owings Mills yesterday on its way to New York to be auctioned to the highest bidder.
Professional meteorite hunter Steve Arnold brought his 1,400-pound find to Direct Dimensions, an Owings Mills-based 3-D imaging company, to gather precise measurements of its mottled exterior.
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