Fireball remnants likely in Calif. some of oldest
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 04:00
in Astronomy & Space
Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years so he knew he'd found something special in the Sierra foothills along the path of a flaming fireball that shook parts of Northern California and Nevada with a sonic boom over the weekend.
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