Meteorite Chunk Donated To Field Museum
By Marcus Gilmer in News on Apr 19, 2010 6:40PM
Remember last week's meteorite that created a giant fireball seen across multiple states in the Midwest? It seems one man has found a chunk of the space rock and has now donated it to the Field Museum. The Trib has the story of Terry Boudreaux, the man who, with his sons, hunted for the meteorite remains in a Wisconsin field. Boudreaux bought the meteorite remains from the farmer who's property the chunk was found on for $200 but then turned around and donated it to the Field Museum. And just for fun, the New York Times snuck in a little dig at the meteorite hunters by equating them with 1800s gold prospectors with their headline, "Meteorites in Them Thar Fields."