© Arizona Department of TransportationPieces of a small asteroid that left a fiery trail in the sky over a big chunk of Arizona earlier this month have been found by researchers
A team of meteorite hunters recently located 15 meteorites on tribal lands after getting permission to search, ASU spokeswoman Beth Giudicessi said Wednesday.
Working in partnership with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, scholars spent more than 130 hours searching the White Mountains.
The findings offer a "piece of that giant puzzle about where did we come from," said ASU Center for Meteorite Studies curator Laurence Garvie.
The tribe will have ownership of the meteorites but ASU will curate them.
Dozens of people reported seeing a fireball in the early morning hours of June 2.
A Tucson motorist captured video that shows the fireball lighting the sky over Tucson.
NASA says it was a small asteroid that had broken apart.
Source: The Associated Press
Good news that meteorites have been found! We'll learn from them.[Link]
The closing of this article was inexcusably remiss in not including the fact that the 1908 event referred to is known as the "Tunguska Event". I'm not sure if the "event" word has been recently replaced by something more specific. I'm providing this information for any readers who, unlike me, don't have the proper name part memorized: it's a lot easier to find out more of this amazing story when you have the proper name Tunguska to include. For millions, that interaction with a space object was the first time we'd heard the name Tunguska.