[Rockhounds] THE MAD SCRAMBLE TO CLAIM THE WORLD'S MOST COVETED METEORITE

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

ON THE MORNING of September 15, 2007, station I08BO—an infrasound
monitoring post for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty near La Paz, Bolivia—picked
up a series of atmospheric vibrations. It was an explosion at very high
altitude, and there was something streaking across the sky, heading
southwest at 27,000 mph.

A FEW MINUTES later, at about 11:45 am, a brilliant fireball flashed over
Carancas, a tiny village at 12,000 feet in Peru’s remote altiplano, a high
plain bounded by the Andes. For those on the ground, this celestial visitor
was the brightest thing anyone had ever seen in the sky.


https://www.wired.com/story/scramble-claim-worlds-most-coveted-meteorite/