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...laugh at any mortal thing,/ Tis that I may not weep," wrote Byron. That philosophical fragment accounts for the duality of all black farce; looking between the cracks, one catches glimpses of hell...
...original Lost City meteorite probably weighed several hundred pounds, and it created a bright "fireball" trail that was seen by thousands of prairie dwellers before it exploded. A farmer named Phillip Halpain discovered a 9-ounce fragment of the meteor while he was searching for a lost calf. Earlier, a member of the Smithsonian's search party discovered a 21 pound chunk lying on a dirt road...
Hundreds of meteors' orbits have been calculated from these photographs, and search parties have looked for meteorite fragments twice before. But this is the first time the Network's scientists have been able to recover a fragment and also calculate its orbit...
...apparent age of the moon itself -most of the rocks were about 1 billion years younger. How could there be such a huge age gap between material picked up only a few feet apart? "This is a major puzzle," says Rice University Geologist Dieter Heymann. One small rock fragment, though, was considerably older than the others: 4.44 billion years. Caltech Geologist G. J. Wasserburg, who calculated its age, believes that still older rocks dating back to the very creation of the moon will probably be found in the unexplored lunar highlands...
Most meteors are reduced to dust by atmospheric friction, so any substantial surviving fragment is valuable...