Richard Binzel helps Colorado town throw 100th birthday party for meteorite
Richard Binzel poses with a piece of the Johnstown meteorite, which fell on the Colorado town in 1924. Photo credit: Cathy Hull.
EAPS Professor Richard Binzel helped organize a celebration 100 years after the Johnstown meteorite landed in the Colorado town of Johnstown. In the 90s, Binzel was part of the NASA team imaging and studying the asteroid Vesta, located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Their research showed that the meteorite originated from Vesta. You can read the full story at Astronomy.
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