Fragments Found of Meteor That Exploded Over California

• By Damon Poeter
• April 26, 2012 07:50pm EST

Near the site of the discovery that launched the Gold Rush more than 150 years ago, meteorite hunter Robert Ward has tracked down another sort of rock —fragments of a minivan-sized meteor that blew up in the sky above California's Sierra foothills early on Sunday.
Ward, who has been hunting for meteorites for more than 20 years, told the Associated Press Thursday that he found a pair of fragments weighing about 10 grams each roughly 35 miles northeast of Sacramento nearby Sutter's Mill, the famous location where James W. Marshall discovered gold in 1848.
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