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Meteorites From Big Fireball Spark Space Age Gold Rush
 I would love to find some of this myself. My brother gave me a small piece when he lived in Winslow, AZ., while I was going to the desert to be alone.
Reading this adds to our history of early CA.
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.Meteorites From Big Fireball Spark Space Age 'Gold Rush'
By SPACE.com Staff | SPACE.com – 6 hrs ago.
Scientists are on an epic treasure hunt for meteorite fragments from a spectacular fireball that lit up the daytime sky over California last month.
The space rocks came from a minivan-size asteroid that plunged through Earth's atmosphere and exploded into a dazzling daytime fireball over California and parts of Nevada on April 22. Meteorite fragments were scattered around Sutter's Mill, an old sawmill in Coloma, Calif. — the same region where the first gold nugget was found, triggering the Gold Rush of 1848.
Now, NASA has a meteorite rush on its hands, one just as exciting as the California's Gold Rush, the agency said.
Scientists and meteorite hunters have descended on the area in hopes of finding precious space rocks that may contain clues about the solar system's history, as well as the origins of molecules that support life.
Fragments from the so-called Sutter's Mill Meteorite fell to Earth on April 22 at 7:51 a.m. PDT (10:51 a.m. EDT). At least one space rock landed in a horse pasture outside of Lotus, Calif., in the Sierra Nevada mountains, according to NASA officials. Merv de Hass, who owns the farm, found the meteorite, but has since donated it to NASA.
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LINKS at the site..........
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•When Space Attacks: The 6 Craziest Meteor Impacts
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Meteorites From Big Fireball Spark Space Age 'Gold Rush' - Yahoo! News
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