Huge Meteorite Found Underground in Kansas

Do you think this explains Kansas' affinity for creationism?


GREENSBURG, Kan. - A rare 1,400-pound meteorite was discovered seven feet underground by a collector in an area long known for producing prized space rocks.

Using a metal detector mounted on a three-wheel vehicle, Steve Arnold of Kingston, Ark., found the huge meteorite two weeks ago in Kiowa County's Brenham Township in southern Kansas.

The meteorite is classified as an oriented pallasite, a type noted for a conical shape with crystals embedded in iron-nickel alloy. Only two larger ones of that type are known to have been found: a 3,100-pounder in Australia and a 1,500-pounder in Argentina.

The Kansas rock was found in the same area that in 1949 produced a 1,000-pound meteorite now on display at the Celestial Museum in Greensburg.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_sc/giant_meteorite

Magnetic fields form space rocks limit intelligence!

(apologies to any Kansas DUers out there)

KRYPTONITE!!

and take away that delusional school board :-)

With a bald billionaire boyfriend.

Spaghetti Monster thousands and thousands of years ago.

Oh Ye of Spicy Sauce
Appendeges we praise
Praise the Holy Ball
Perfectly its braised

When will people get it? FSM is all powerful....

His noodly appendage can smite as well!

even small ones are worth a lot of money.

maybe it was a humungous squirrel that thought it was a acorn.

that diminish the ability to understand science while absorbing the mind into the borg of a higher intelligence. It's too complex to explain otherwise.

Amazing how no one found it in the last 7000 years. And to think, that the All Knowing ID'er just knew someone would need the money:sarcasm:

My husband and I just decided we're going to go meteorite hunting. :think: They can sell for $20 to $40 a gram!!

I bought a very small piece of "real meteorite" at our AZ Mineral and Mining Museum for $5. (It's for my nephew's rock collection -- that's what aunties do!)

It would be very cool to find one!

:evilgrin:

How do you do it?

It should have come down last week, preferably on the school board.

A sign of God's displeasure with their antics? Or would they just scream Terra! Terra! Terra!

It was on the Daily Planet's front page years ago.

of the H.P. Lovecraft story, "The Colour out of Space."

Yep, there really is a town called Nothing, AZ. The population is something like 3 and it's really just a shabby store between Wickenburg and Kingman on the route between Phoenix and Vegas.

...in my travels. I love the watertower visible from the interstate highway festooned with the legend: "Metropolis - Home of Superman" complete with a big pic of the Flying One.


Too cool.... :P


(Okay...maybe I'm easily impressed....gimme a break.) :D


I don't know about Smallville, but we certainly have one of the stupidest state school boards in the nation.

At least until the next election, that is. :puke:

watches.

I doubt it, though.

.. aren't being exposed to the theory that meteorites are formed spontaneously deep within the earth.

</very bitter Smallville fan>

I'll be gone by then...Good Luck DUers :hi:

Trying to mislead the people of Kansas down the path to Satan by hiding ancient meteorites underground as a test of faith. Shame on all three of you, God!