With tremendous, white-hot roar a small meteorite recently rushed from the skies and smashed into southwest Africa. Last week Harvard's Dutch-born Astronomer Willem Jacob Luyten examined the sky-piece and found it the biggest thing of its kind yet observed by Science. It measures 10 by 10 by 14 feet and weighs between 50 and 75 tons. Hence it is bigger than the record 36½ ton meteorite found on the edge of Greenland by the late Polar Explorer Robert Peary and given to the American Museum of Natural History.
Certainly much larger is the yet...
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