Dakota Datebook: Meteors

Oct. 9, 2018 — On a cold winter night in 1910, a 600-pound meteorite lying on a sidewalk in Carrington disappeared and was never seen again.

Thousands of meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere every single day, but only a few survive to actually hit the dirt. On this date in 1992, for example, thousands of people heard a sonic boom, then watched as a meteor burst into flames and streaked across eastern...