Central Michigan University issued the following announcement on Oct. 19.
Faculty expert shines light on space rocks, mining and the glow of ‘yooperlite’
Experts on Point is a University Communications series focusing on CMU faculty who have special insights into interesting, important and timely topics. See the complete series here.
The annual Orionid meteor shower is about to grace the heavens with up to 20 "shooting stars" an hour Oct. 20-21.
Hardly a week goes by without meteors or meteorites (meteors that hit the ground) making the news somewhere. In October 2018, it was Central Michigan University's turn in the spotlight after Mona Sirbescu, a geology faculty member in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, identified a man's 22-pound iron doorstop as the sixth-largest meteorite ever found in Michigan.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Central Michigan University
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