The Canon City Meteorite
On the evening of Oct. 27, 1973, a meteorite hurtled through the sky in Canon
City, Colo. It landed on a garage, tearing a six-inch hole in the roof and
leaving a two-inch gash in the garage’s cement floor. The meteorite, which
weighed 1.4 kg at the time of impact, was classified as a chondrite, a stony
meteorite that is the most common type to hit Earth. According to scientist
Glenn Huss, who was director of the American Meteorological Laboratory at the
time, the Canon City meteorite originated 60 million miles away, in an asteroid
belt.
At the time, it was only the third meteorite in Colorado to be discovered
shortly after landfall. Upon impact, the meteorite broke into four large pieces
and more than 50 fragments. A 2001 report named the Canon City meteorite as
only one of 35 meteorites to hit a man-made structure in the United States.
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