VISITORS to the famous Bonneville salt flats in Utah are advised to keep a wary eye on the sky. Local amateur astronomers are planning to drop bowling balls from high-flying aircraft to simulate meteorite impacts.
Tired of pointing their telescopes at the skies, enthusiasts at the Salt Lake Astronomical Society recently went meteorite-hunting on the nearby salt flats, thinking that the blackened space rocks would show up starkly against the smooth, white surface. “We found quite a lot of objects – rocks carried by flash floods from the mountains and shell cases from army training,” says Kim Hyatt, an architect…
