A Florida family searched for a falling meteorite 25 years before the stone turned up

Mr. Alger states that a family living about 2 miles from Hustis saw, about 25 years ago, a meteorite fall and made fruitless search for it, contenting themselves with a fragment of sandstone which they mistook for the object in question.

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What the AI says

A 1918 article in the American Journal of Science describes a weathered chondritic stone found at Eustis, Lake County, Florida, only the second meteorite find in the state. The author reports that a local family saw a meteorite fall about 25 years earlier, searched in vain, and settled for a piece of sandstone. The author considers it probable that this was the same fall, but the link rests on one second-hand account and is unconfirmed.

How forgotten?

little-known · The Eustis stone is likely listed in meteorite catalogs, but the witnessed fall story and the family's search are probably known only to specialists.

Web check

Documented today · Merrill's 1918 American Journal of Science article on the Eustis, Florida H4 chondrite is in the TCU repository. A meteorite dealer page (meteoritestudies.com) also repeats the story of the family who saw the fall 25 years earlier. (10 sources seen)

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Significance

5 / 10

Cost to find

$0.07 (reading the page $0.0004, checking $0.07)

Source

The American journal of science (ser. 4 v. 45 1918), 1880

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