Meteorite Confirmed

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A Pal­l­a­site Mete­orite was dis­cov­ered in Craw­ford County, Ohio. The mete­orite weighs 59 pounds. It was dis­cov­ered in a farm field while they were lay­ing new field tile. Recently, the farmer brought the mete­orite to Lowe Volk Park at a monthly astron­omy event. Two mem­bers of the Rich­land Astro­nom­i­cal Soci­ety exam­ined the rock and con­firmed it was a mete­orite. Fur­ther exam­i­na­tion led to the con­clu­sion that it was a Pal­l­a­site Mete­orite. This is a very rare find and pos­si­bly the first in Ohio.

A mete­orite is mate­r­ial left over from the cre­ation of our solar sys­tem that has entered earth’s atmos­phere and fallen to the earth. Most mete­orites come from the Aster­oid Belt located between Mars and Jupiter. Most mete­orites are stony and con­tain iron. Iron mete­orites con­tain a high per­cent­age of iron and are eas­ier to iden­tify but they are rare.

A Pal­l­a­site is a type of iron mete­orite that con­tains a min­eral called Olivine. Olivine is a green or amber col­ored crys­tal min­eral. A Pal­l­a­site mete­orite is thought to orig­i­nate from the core-mantle bound­ary of a large asteroid.

On Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 8th at 1:00PM the mete­orite will be on dis­play at Lowe Volk Park Nature Cen­ter, 2401 SR 598, Crest­line, OH. There will be a lec­ture on mete­orites and sev­eral other types of mete­orites will be on dis­play. At 8:00 pm mem­bers of the Rich­land Astro­nom­i­cal Soci­ety will lead a monthly astron­omy pro­gram. Both of these pro­grams are great fam­ily events.

Posted by Staff Reports on Aug 23 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.