![]() And Blanket Creek got it’s name, so says Wikipedia, “ According to tradition, Blanket Creek was named from an incident when a group of Tonkawa Indians sat under blankets to stay dry during a rainstorm.” And the story of Blanket, as much as one can trust the history of such things, has its origins from a local landmark, in this case, Blanket Creek. Some of my favorite are in Colorado including Boulder, Dinosaur, Eagle, Marble, Parachute, and of course Rifle. I’ve always liked towns that have common nouns as their name. And the total known weight of the L6 chondrite named Blanket totals around 5kg.Īnd a thanks again to Frank Cressy and his landmark book From Weston to Creston for providing background on Blanket. The two original stones that the Field Museum acquired weighed 1.5kg and 1.6kg. The Dossey stone ended up in the Smithsonian Collection minus a 180g section Nininger kept for his personal enjoyment. Professor Dossey’s stone, like many meteorites including Blackwell, Oklahoma (written about in the previous edition of the Accretion Desk) spent its childhood on earth working as a doorman. Dossey who grew into Professor Dossey by the time Nininger met him. Nininger continued the search for stones around Blanket and discovered a 2kg stone recovered at the time of the fall by a child named W. While the loss of life and property in the nearby hamlet of Zephyr, Texas was severe, a few folks in Blanket, Texas had the presence of mind to look for, collect, and share several stone meteorites, the largest of which made their way to the Field Museum in Chicago. The simple reason for barely a mention in the local press was because the meteorite fall was preceded earlier that day by a nearby F4 tornado that pretty much destroyed another equally small town 12 miles away. Normally the excitement of a fireball would make the news and keep the conversations animated at the local diner, but not this time. Cuntz made the Fox TV station aware of his conclusion that this meteorite impact was probably a hoax, and the TV station took the news clip off their website.A lone shooting star graced the evening sky of the Lone Star state back in 1909, one of only two witnessed meteorite falls that year. ![]() His website mentioned that their equipment could move rock of any size. Later on, Cuntz received an email that linked the property owner to being the owner of an earth-moving equipment company. A meteorite of this size would have "caused widespread devastation", yet nothing of this sort occurred. Local newspapers, TV and the Texas Mutual UFO network sensationalized the story trying to explain how it could be a meteorite despite its composition, lack of burning as it would have had if it zipped through the atmosphere. Generally, meteorites are not composed of limestone. Arthur Ehlmann, a professor of geology at the Texas Christian University and an expert in meteoric research, chipped off a piece of the stone and pronounced it to be made of limestone, which was plentiful in the area. A few smashed trees were nearby, but no signs of burning could be seen. They found a refrigerator-sized gray-white rock at the end of a trench. ![]() Cuntz along with other experts, a Fox TV crew and the property owner met at the site. In May 2009 Manfred Cuntz, a professor of physics and the director of the astronomy program at the University of Texas at Arlington, was called in to investigate a supposed meteorite impact. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Chalk Mountain has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. Jerry Naylor, recording artist, disc jockey, and television and radio personality.United States Navy SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield were murdered at a shooting range near Chalk Mountain on February 2, 2013. In 2009 Chalk Mountain was the site of a meteorite hoax. Route 67 near the Somervell County line, about 12 miles southwest of Glen Rose. Chalk Mountain is a small unincorporated community in Erath County, Texas, United States. ![]()
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