How are meteors, meteorites different?

‘Sunspot Larry’ teaches kids, adults about space; Metcalf will visit Sumter library in summer

By MELANIE SMITH
melanie@theitem.com
Posted 4/4/19

A small crowd gathered around "Sunspot Larry" on Saturday at a private observatory near Bethune, reaching for chunks of iron that fell from the sky and struck the Earth.

The 4.6-billion-year-old iron Campo del Cielo meteorites were found in …

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