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PSU prof still hunting for NW meteorite site
07:14 AM PDT on Monday, March 10, 2008
A Portland State professor thinks he’s getting warmer in the hunt for a meteorite.
Background: Search on for meteorite impact site
The meteor was seen across a wide area of the Pacific Northwest early February 19, including the Portland Metro area.
Professor Alex Ruzicka and his geology students work in the Cascadia Meteorite Laboratory.
Ruzicka told the PSU Daily Vanguard that his team thinks they’ve pinpointed the impact are to within a 10-mile radius northeast of Pendelton.
Scientists said sonic booms indicated at least a portion of the meteor likely survived entry into earth's atmosphere, slowing from 50,000 miles an hour to just 4,000.
But unless any fragments fell in a populated area, it would be hard to identify them, Ruzicka said.
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