Meteor/Meteorite News 2SEP2010

Midwest Meteor Named Mifflin After Wis. Township

WCCO
CHICAGO (AP) ― A meteorite that fell in Wisconsin earlier this year now has a name: Mifflin. The Field Museum in Chicago said Wednesday that the ...

Meteor-impact may not have killed mammoths, great bears, claim experts

Sify
The theory that a space impact was responsible for extinction of at least 17 groups of large animals including mammoths and great bears, can be discounted, ...

New Deal man shares discovery of meteorite

LubbockOnline.com
The New Deal Meteorite is classified as an H6 ordinary chondrite — one of 3889 approved meteorites with that classification, according to the US Geological ...

Meteorite that hit Wisconsin is named
Wisconsin State Journal Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:05 PM PDT
The meteor that lit up the sky of southern Wisconsin on April 14 and created an international buzz now has a name. The Meteoritical Society has aptly named it the Mifflin Meteorite, named after the town on which many of the pieces were found. The area is about 65 miles west of Madison in Iowa County just south of Montfort. ...

Meteorite that lit night skies this spring is named Chicago Tribune Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:00 PM PDT A meteorite that lit up the night skies over the upper Midwest as it plummeted into southeastern Wisconsin April 14 now has a name: Mifflin, for rural Mifflin Township where it fell. Many tens of thousands of eye witnesses in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois saw the meteor as it streaked down to Earth shortly after 10 p.m., setting hundreds of professional and amateur meteorite hunters ...

Meteorite That Fell In Wisconsin Now Has Name WISN 12 Milwaukee Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:40 PM PDT The meteorite that fell in Wisconsin in April is named Mifflin....

Midwest meteor named Mifflin after Wis. township ABC 7 Chicago Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:04 PM PDT A meteorite that lit up the sky in April now has a name: Mifflin....

Midwest meteor named after Wis. township where it fell Minnesota Public Radio Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:54 PM PDT The Field Museum in Chicago said Wednesday that the Meteoritical Society named the meteorite after Mifflin Township, where it fell on April 14....

Midwest Meteorite On Display KWQC-TV 6 Davenport Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:29 PM PDT A meteorite that fell in Wisconsin earlier this year now has a name: Mifflin. The Meteoritical Society named the meteorite after Mifflin Township, where it fell on April 14th. The group also has classified...

Wisconsin meteorite gets a new name
CBS 58 Milwaukee Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:26 PM PDT
The meteor fragment that fell in April will be named after the township where it fell ...

Meteorite that lit night skies this spring is named

Chicago Breaking News - Tribune
Terry Boudreaux, a private Lake Forest meteorite hunter and collector, located some of the first recovered pieces of the meteorite found by farmers in the ...