Huge meteorite discovered underground in Kansas

[emad]

GREENSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A rare 1,400-pound meteorite was discovered seven feet underground by a collector in an area long known for producing prized space rocks.


Meteorite hunter Steve Arnold, right, discovered the 1,400- pound meteorite on Allen Binford's farm, left, in Haviland, Kan.
By G. Marc Benavidez, AP

Using a metal detector mounted on a three-wheel vehicle, Steve Arnold of Kingston, Ark., found the huge meteorite two weeks ago in Kiowa County's Brenham Township in southern Kansas.

The meteorite is classified as an oriented pallasite, a type noted for a conical shape with crystals embedded in iron-nickel alloy. Only two larger ones of that type are known to have been found: a 3,100-pounder in Australia and a 1,500-pounder in Argentina.

The Kansas rock was found in the same area that in 1949 produced a 1,000-pound meteorite now on display at the Celestial Museum in Greensburg.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2005-11-11-meteoritediscovery_x.htm

LOOKS LIKE a giant truffle to me...

[Lowell]

1. Imagine That

and its only a couple thousand years old. Seeing as how the world is only a few thousand years old that meteor can only be a few years old itself. Too bad it didn't land on the Kansas Board of Education.

[emad]

4. "Teaching evolution not the problem"

November 13, 2005

Spectrum\Bill Siedler

So, what's the matter with the Mat-Su Valley? In his 2004 book, “What's the Matter with Kansas?” humorist and social commentator Thomas Frank explores the 1999 decision (Frank describes it as a “barking idiocy”) of the Kansas Board of Education to delete references to macroevolution and the age of the earth from Kansas' science standards. It apparently did not matter to a majority of the board members that to biologists and biology teachers worldwide, that evolution is the bedrock upon which modern biology, and much of earth science rests.

According to Frank, what mattered to the Kansas board was that teaching evolution in public schools caused “'Teen drug use, the rampant spread of sexually transmitted diseases, despair and suicide in teens, as well as youth violence.'” The 1999 decision was reversed, but on Nov. 8, the Kansas board voted 6-4 to redefine the term “science” so as to accommodate supernatural explanations (“God did it!”).

How did Kansas, or for that matter the Mat-Su Valley, come to where the teaching of evolution is attacked so publicly by people who choose to remain ignorant of how evolution makes sense of the natural world. Many have seen this coming from a long way off, but recent items in our Valley Frontiersman newspaper have made the issue impossible to ignore further.

First, there was a public discussion - in writing, and in cartoon form, courtesy of Chuck Legge - of the validity of a home-school science education, if the pupil gets his or her “facts” from a conspicuously Christian fundamentalist (read: “creationist”) text.

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2005/11/13/news/opinion/opinion2.txt

[pnorman]

6. That "idiot logic" made my day!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
pnorman

[expatriot]

2. The Designer may not be intelligent, but he has a sense of humor.

Hello Kansas!

[Fridays Child]

3. Kansas? This may explain a lot.

Just sayin'. :evilgrin:

[kweerwolf]

5. The fundies has two possible theories for this ...

1. Satan buried the "meterorite" there to lure scientists into believing the heretical notion of "evil-ultion."

2. It's all a publicity stunt to promote the WB's "Smallville."

Case closed! After all, the Bible don't say nuttin' 'bout no "meatier-rights." ;)