Straight out of Indiana Jones, Nazis recover an ancient religious extraterrestrial artifact. But this one is real.
ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) — An ancient Buddhist statue which was first recovered by a Nazi expedition in 1938 has been analyzed by a team of scientists led by Dr. Elmar Buchner from the Institute of Planetology, University of Stuttgart. The....
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-114
Nasa has confirmed the fireball that was seen over California in late April 2012 did indeed drop meteorites on the ground.
Mike Farmer, a meteorite hunter has already found fragments of this CM2 classed meteorite. At this time, it is not know if there are meteorites for sale for reserachers.
Daylight fireballs are always a thrill. They must be a big meteoroid coming in, right? Big enought to put meteorites on the ground, we hope.
This week over San Antonio, there was a daylight fireball seen to the south. It was short, maybe 3-4 seconds which hints at a steep angle and hopefully a short strewnfield. However, there was no reported acoustical boom. That is bad, very bad. At this point, I'm discounting the idea any material made it to the ground.
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McCartney Taylor from Texas Texas Meteorite Lab is interviewed by several TV stations in regard to the Feb 1, 2012 fireball over North Texas.
http://www.kvue.com/home/Experts-race-to-learn-more-about-Wednesday-Nights-Me...
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With the recent sights of a large meteor over Germany
It turns out it was just space junk. Often the news gets it wrong. Take the Ash Creek fall over Texas for example. That was where the news thought it was space junk but it was a meteorite.
