Sunday 2220 November 00:04
An obstacle for the team in Namibia
In his travel schedule for space, the earth intercepts every year between 40,000 and 80,000 tons of meteoroids, that is, fragments detached from asteroids and other heavenly bodies, but the atmosphere prevents most of them from reaching the surface and giving rise to meteorites. Of course we sometimes get a good piece: in 1920 Jacobus Hermanus Britten worked with his OS when the team crashed on something and produced a resonant metal noise. Certainly, the farmer did not make this very funny in his duties, but He had just found the Hoba meteorite, the oldest found, with an estimated weight of around sixty tons. It is so great that it has never been withdrawn from the site, although its environment has been urbanized to make it one of the tourist attractions of Namibia. In Spain, the largest meteorite from Zaragoza, 162 kilos and accompanied by fewer details: it is known that it was located in the Aragonese province in the 1950s at a certain moment. Fourteen years ago he bought it a famous ‘Meteorit Hunter’ and fragmented to sell it with the retail trade.
The ‘gift of God’ that remained in nothing
Throughout history, the stories about stones from scratch that give someone, but the first proven case of a person who has reached a meteorite were from Ann Hodges. On November 30, 1954, this young woman from Sylacauga (Alabama) was not very good and he decided to take a nap on the couch. Suddenly, A condrita of almost four kilos crossed the roof, bounced on a radio and hit poor Ann in the hip. He produced a great brunette, in pineapple, and also some vital complications: Ann and her husband wanted to keep what had fallen from heaven (“I think God wanted me to be from me,” she said), but her home -made exercised her right and claimed it. In the end, the few $ 500 paid for the preservation of their alien stone, thinking that they would do good business with it, but the juicy offers never arrived and donated it to a museum. Instead, a local farmer came across another excerpt when he caught firewood and sold it for an interesting peak, enough to buy a house and a car.
Thousands of broken crystals and a new religion
On February 15, 2013, a brilliant body that crossed heaven could be considered in the Russian oblast of Cheliubinsk. It was a car, the luminous phenomenon that occurs when a meteoroid enters the atmosphere. The object broke from about 23 kilometers height and produced an intense flash, a cloud of fabric and gas, countless meteorites and an extensive wave that damaged 7,200 buildings from six different locations. About 1500 people required medical help, most of the impact of crystals, and everyone proclaimed the ‘Tunguska event’ of 1908, which is attributed to a similar event and destroyed two thousand square kilometers of Siberian Tiga. The largest meteorite that has been restored from the Cheliábinsk event, half a ton, was taken from the Chebarkul Lake and gave rise to a religion: His priests claim that in that fragment there are the coded instructions to gain access to “a new phase of spiritual knowledge”, So they demand moving the museum to a temple.
The man who was taught to look for
According to NASA, around 50,000 meteorites have been found, of which 99.8% comes from asteroids and the rest comes from the moon or mars. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, only a few hundred, but Everything changed as a result of the distribution task of the American Harvey Harlow Nininger, who started teaching in the 1920s and 30 people On the appearance of these materials, with conversations both at universities and in city schools. Knowledge led to the findings, especially in cultivation areas, and promoted scientific interest.
