Monahans News
Monahans, Texas
Thursday, March 26, 1998
Scientists still look for meteorites in Ward County
Scientists are looking for still more meteorites that may have fallen in Monahans last Sunday night.
Steve Schmidt, director of the Blakemore Planetarium at the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, would like to talk to any eyewitnesses of the arrival of the meteorites and would
also like to encourage everyone to check their property, including roofs, for others that may have falled unnoticed during the meteor shower.
All information is confidential and he asks that any rocks found not be handled by hand, rather by picking up with gloves and placed in a sealed plastic bag so as not to disturb the radio isotopes of the meteorite. They are no danger to humans but it is important for
research purposes to preserve their integrity, says the scientist.
He also asks that anyone who finds anything suspicious - probably black on the inside with cement looking interior - to take pictures from different angles or video using a ruling pointing north to give a perspective so as to determine the trajectory of the incoming projectile.
He can be reached at 915-683-2882.
