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38 143685 Box7 Incident Summaries 101 172
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of February 18 over northern Kansas was just that, inasmuch as meteorites
have been recovered from it." There were found, beginning April 2h, first
several smaller fragments up to one of 1/2 pounds. ‘Then a disturbed
spot in a clover field led to the digging up of a piece of some 109 pounds
embedded about two feet in the soil. The stone is what is termed as an
"achondrite", a technical name for an unusual type of stony meteorite.
It is reported to be of a type which will deteriorate rapidly.
A photograph of the trail of the meteor, made by amateur photographer
Duane W. Wray of Norton, shows the vapor trail left in the sky by the
explosion of a meteor which was seen in Oklahoma, New “exico, Colorado,
Kansas, and “ebraska. It was made at Wray's home, nine miles north of
Norton, just four minutes after the meteor exploded. A smuige of blue-
white smoke remained in the sky for an hour February 18th. This photo-
graph is in file under Incident #101. :
Further remarks are contained in supplement.
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