Monday, April 14, 2014

                                 The Shunga Creek Meteorite

One day me and my friend were fishing at the Shunga creek in Topeka Kansas, this place usually
has hundreds of different fish in a small area, and some are huge, and there in a creek you could
almost jump across. After a few hours, with no luck ,we went back towards a small field on the
way I found a small dark rock with shiny metal flakes inside. I went home, and discovered it was magnetic. But not as magnetic as magnetite, or slag. This rock was very, very small however
appears like a meteorite. The next few days I found many, many more. In a certain area. A few
weeks later I found a big dip in the ground. The circumference, was a few hundred feet , and nine
feet deep at the center. It must have been pretty old considering there is a forest was on the north side
In the next few weeks I gathered more than one hundred small samples. The biggest an inch across I
was waiting for the big one, and after a few months, I found It.

I was on my way to another friends house when I felt something under my foot. I looked down and
saw a large Dark rock. This Rock like the smaller ones had many shiny flecks inside, and was magnetic. Then, the next day I found four more rocks about the same size. It is a Major find, its
believed to be an ordinary chondrite, or an achondrite, that exploded over the landscape. Scattering
meteorites around the area. 

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