Case file · Cosmic event
The Brenham pallasite
In 1949 a 1,000-pound mass of the Brenham stony-iron meteorite was dug out of a farm east of Greensburg, Kansas; the meteorite is linked to the small Haviland crater in Kiowa County.
1949 CE · 37.58, -99.10 · status: explained
The account
Pieces had been found since the 1880s, and in October 2005 hunters recovered a 1,430-pound mass, the largest so far.