Field Museum scientists in Chicago study Michigan meteor

Scientists during Chicago’s Field Museum are study a square of a meteor that pennyless detached progressing this month over Michigan.

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The meteorite, a distance of a pink pit, arrived Wednesday. NASA scientists contend a two-metre far-reaching meteor pennyless detached about 20 miles over Earth on Jan. 16. It combined a splendid light and what sounded like rumble in a sky.

Best video of a #meteor so far. People in Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Canada saw a flash. pic.twitter.com/4DrAXo2UlQ

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@Phil_Lewis_

Museum associate curator Philipp Heck believes a meteorite came from an asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Meteorite hunter Robert Ward found it on a snow-covered lake nearby Hamburg, Michigan, and donated it to a Field Museum.

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A meteoroid is a tiny cube of asteroid or comet. When it enters Earth’s atmosphere it becomes a meteor, fireball or sharpened star. The pieces of stone that strike a belligerent are meteorites.

Caught by confidence camera in Woodburn Indiana around 8:17 pm pic.twitter.com/Kbe54p9JUk

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@MartyMedina17

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