* Astronomy

Five billion years since its formation and 20,000 years after it entered the earth's atmosphere, the 1,000 pound meteorite still is on the move.
Greensburg's meteorite was launched into a new trajectory after an F5 tornado destroyed the town and museum in early May. And after several months of being in storage at Wichita's Exploration Place, it's hit Hays -- for the time being.
The meteorite arrived Tuesday morning at Fort Hays State University's Sternberg Museum of Natural History, where it will be displayed in the front lobby indefinitely.

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Greensburg's famous 1,000-pound space rock landed at Exploration Place on Monday, where it will be on display for about a month.
Dubbed the "Space Wanderer" when it was unearthed in 1949, the pallasite meteorite -- the second largest of many that have been excavated in Kansas -- will spend the next few months wandering the state while Greensburg rebuilds.

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Half a year ago, Wired ran a story about a guy who'd built a makeshift metal detector to hunt for meteorites under the corn and wheat fields of southwestern Kansas. Steve Arnold wasn't a Kansan, but he took a house in Greensburgheart of Kiowa countyto be near the fields that, thousands of years ago, were the site of the Brenham meteor fall. Greensburg already had, as a roadside attraction, a 1,000-pound specimen of pallasite meteorite, the largest ever found in the US, until Arnold found a bigger rock.
When we did the Wired Science TV show pilot we went to Greensburg to talk to Arnold. We even found another rockours was only about a 50-pounder, on sale now for $12,000. The town was a perfectly nice place. Lots of boarded-up stores on the main drag, just like you find in any town in the middle of the country these days. Lots of open space. Not too many places to get a meal. Trim little houses.
And now Greensburg is basically gone.

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Within days of a tornado that destroyed 90% of Greensburg, KS, at least 7 people have been arrested for looting the town:
What bugs me more is that the 1,000 pound pallasite meteorite, one of the world's largest, is gone. So is the rest of the town's meteorite collection. That collection wasn't just an important part of the town's tourism industry, right alongside it's hand-dug well (which is presumed to be intact underneath the wreckage). The meteorites were part of what could have been a wonderful experiment in scientific advocacy for the region.
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Finally, there's good news from here.
The town's famous 1,000-pound meteorite is not lost after all. It was just hiding, under the rubble of the museum that had housed it for decades and is no more.
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