* Astronomy

Wednesday, Oct 18, 2006

“They screen even this soil, and we come upon our first real find: a meteorite! They find it by running a large magnet over the rocks and debris that doesn’t fall through the screen, with the hope of finding nails and other metal objects they can’t see - and up pops what looks to be an ordinary stone but obviously attracted to the magnet by its iron content. Ron can even tell the group which side of the meteorite entered the atmosphere first - the side rounded and smoothed by heat and friction.”

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