Lost City, Oklahoma
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- Lost City is also the name of a Census Designated Place in Oklahoma.
Lost City is a small rural community located in Cherokee County, Oklahoma.
On January 3, 1970, three stations of the Prairie Network (Hominy and Woodward, Oklahoma, and Pleasanton, Kansas) photographed the track of a meteor after a several year search. The meteor was the first ever photographed in the United States. Analysis of the photographs indicated the meteorite landed within a one-mile square around Lost City. Six days later, Gunther Schwartz, chief of the project, spotted the 21.6 pound meteorite sitting in a snow-covered road[1] within one-half mile of Lost City. The Lost City Meteorite proved to be a H5 chondrite.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ The Daily Oklahoman, January 14, 1970, pg. 7: "'Suddenly there was the black rock in the road, and I wondered what it was doing there, and got out to look at it,' Schwartz said. 'And then you get hysterical. Just think of the odds against finding it there. Fantastic.'"
- ^ Lost City, The Meteoritical Society.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Daily Oklahoman, January 14, 1970. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Publishing Company.
- Lost City. The Meteoritical Society, 27 Nov 2006. (accessed February 3, 2007)
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