The meteor that lit up the sky of southern Wisconsin on April 14 and created an international buzz now has a name.
The Meteoritical Society has aptly named it the Mifflin Meteorite, named after the town on which many of the pieces were found. The area is about 65 miles west of Madison in Iowa County just south of Montfort.
Nearly two weeks after a meteorite was spotted over southwestern Wisconsin, the search for potentially valuable fragments continues. But concern is growing over possible scams associated with pieces of the meteor.
Some meteorite fragments can be worth quite a bit of money, but some are concerned about out-of-towners who are looking to make a quick buck scamming inexperienced meteorite hunters.
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Here's some video of the midwest meteor which was also visable throughout the great state of Wisconsin.
COURTESY KWWL-TV http://bit.ly/9LIHD6 Video of Midwest Meteor seen over the skies of several Midwestern states on the evening of Wednesday, April 14th. Courtesy KWWL in Iowa. Fast-forward to :28
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Oconomowoc High School student Nathan Alf accidentally caputred a photo of the Midwest Meteor by accident. Nathan was shooting photos of grass at night for a photography class as the meteor flew overhead and subsequently snapped a once in a lifetime photo.
[*note: We found the embeddable news piece on clipsyndicate. We're hopeful that @WISN12news makes their videos embeddable in the near future.]
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Did you see the lights in the sky last night? Turns out it wasn't aliens, it was a meteor!
Thanks to Brad Miller for these awesome images of the Midwest Meteor from the AOS/SSEC rooftop webcam at UW-Madison.
Additional thanks to ddenson for sending us this!
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