Radar Helps Locate Meteorite in Kansas

October 17th, 2006 in Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Radar Helps Locate Meteorite in Kansas (AP)

Workers pull dirt away from a 154-pound meteorite as a team from the Houston Museum of Natural Science unearth the find in a field near Greensburg, Kan., Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

(AP) -- Scientists were excited when they pulled a 154-pound meteorite from deep below a Kansas wheat field, but what got them most electrified was the way they unearthed it.

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