> "Gareth James, a science and divinity teacher at Porthmadoc Grammar School > said the meteorite probably originated in the Van Allen belt - an enormous > debris field made up of comets and small moons, about a hundred million > miles from Earth.
> "Many meteors contain gold or diamonds," said Mr. Jones. > "They can be very, very valuable. > Only the hardest ones, made of iron and argon, > survive their super-hot reentry. > In a seemingly unrelated event last week in Chicago, Illinois (USA), > thousands of stone meteorites pelted a wealthy suburb of the "windy city." Wow!! And we were annoyed by meteorite "shower!!" Mark ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
