{"id":15143,"date":"2010-04-16T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wisconsin-meteor-update-meteorite-found-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-04-16T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T17:21:11","slug":"wisconsin-meteor-update-meteorite-found-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/wisconsin-meteor-update-meteorite-found-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin meteor update: meteorite found | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the first meteorite from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/04\/14\/huge-fireball-over-wisconsin\/\">the fireball over Wisconsin has been found: <\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/165999\/group\/homepage\/\">a pair of brothers discovered a small chunk<\/a> of the bright meteor that burned up over the midwest skies Wednesday night.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocksfromspace.org\/April_14_2010_meteorite_fall.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/241e7_wisconsin_meteorite.jpg\" alt=\"wisconsin_meteorite\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14147\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>It certainly <em>looks<\/em> like a meteorite (click to embiggen); the outer blackened fusion crust is from passing through the air, and the interior has the gray, grainy structure in common <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chondrite\">chondrites<\/a>. The cube is one centimeter in size and is used in photos like this to give scale.<\/p><p>Pretty cool. There may be thousands of such meteorites lying on the ground in Wisconsin right now; the meteoroid itself was probably a meter or so in size and weighted about a ton. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2010\/04\/16\/Meteorite-hunters-descend-on-Wisconsin\/UPI-10601271424415\/\">Meteorite hunters are already there searching<\/a>, and I hope that most of the fallen rocks will be sent to researchers for analysis. <\/p><p>Falls like this are very important scientifically. Having a lot of eyewitnesses means the path and therefore the orbit of the rock can be ascertained, and many times such meteoroids are part of a family of such objects; all on related orbits and probably from the same parent body. When we get samples of the meteorites that means we have samples of an asteroid! <\/p><p>So if you live in that area and find something suspicious, take photographs of it where it is, then carefully put it in a baggie or box (use gloves if you can so you minimize contamination) and contact a local University. The vast majority of rocks found this way aren&rsquo;t meteorites (we call &lsquo;em meteorwrongs, haha) but it&rsquo;s worth making sure.<\/p><p><em>Image: Terry Boudreaux, submitted to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocksfromspace.org\/April_14_2010_meteorite_fall.html\">Rocks From Space<\/a> by Michael Farmer.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GPm70RszkTSmNu27cEs5Y7zaukg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/241e7_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/GPm70RszkTSmNu27cEs5Y7zaukg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/241e7_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/241e7_Q9RXo08tBeY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/241e7_Uq5RPKUXpGM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the first meteorite from the fireball over Wisconsin has been found: a pair of brothers discovered a small chunk of the bright meteor that burned up over the midwest skies Wednesday night.It certainly looks like a meteorite (click to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/wisconsin-meteor-update-meteorite-found-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}