Sunday, December 19, 2010

Randolph County North Carolina Meteorite

June 19th 2009 a amazing thing happend to a 15 year old boy from a medium sized county of  North Carolina. The young Corey Jannet was digging a cave for him and his friends to play in in his back yard, in Coleridge a fairly good town in Randolph County North Carolina, 4ft. in the ground Corey and his buddies hit a rock, it took all 4 of them to get it out of the ground, they run and show the Grandpa, Mike Snider, he told the young boys this may be a meteorite cause of the rusty look, Corey's Grandpa called an archeologist they came out to take a look, sure enough it was an meteorite, the archeologist told the boy and his Grandpa they were looking at a large peice of world history, Corey decided to sell it to the archeologist for his future ahead, the archeologist gave the young teenager an even 3 million dallors for the 5,838 year old meteorite that has always been in they're back yard. Many more Randolph County North Carolina meteorite findings  have accurd, the most recent one was in Asheboro, North Carolina on September, 27th 2009 but allover Randolph County all together 18 metoerites have been discoverd exspecially in Randelman and Asheboro North Carolina. Archeologist say their are an estimate of 10,000,000 meteorites in Randolph County, North Carolina. All together that is $15,729,830 worth of metorites in Randolph County, North Carolina. Here are some pictures of 5 meteorites discoverd in Randolph County North Carolina.

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