Looking Back at the Park Forest Meteorite (Video/Story)

by Gary Kopycinski on February 24, 2013

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A fragment of the Park Forest Meteorite. (Jon Taylor on Flikr)

In the wake of the meteorite that exploded over central Russian in mid-February, CBS channel 2 Chicago ran a story looking back at the Park Forest Meteorite. Striking on March 26, 2003, we are fast approaching the 10-year anniversary of the night a piece of heaven fell on our village.