Meteorites Recovered in Arizona from June 2 Fireball

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Meteorites Recovered in Arizona from June 2 Fireball

On June 2, a chunk of rock the size of a Volkswagen Beetle hurtled into the atmosphere over the desert Southwest at 40,000 miles per hour and broke apart over the White Mountains of eastern Arizona.

A week later, one of Arizona State University's top meteorite experts was off on a team expedition in the Arizona wilderness on an Apache homeland, braving bug bites, bears and mountainous terrain.

After three nights and 132 hours of searching, they were successful.

"This is a really big deal," said Laurence Garvie, research professor and curator of the Center for Meteorite Studies in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU. "It was a once-in-a-generation experience."

More: https://asunow.asu.edu/20160628-discoveries-tracking-down-arizona-fireball