Editing Chicora, Pennsylvania (section)

==Chicora meteor==
On June 24, 1938, a [[meteorite]] fell in the vicinity of Chicora. Named the "Chicora Meteor", the {{convert|450|t|short ton|adj=on}} meteorite exploded approximately {{convert|12|mi}} above the Earth's surface. Only two fragments of the meteorite were found following initial investigations. They had masses of {{cvt|242|g}} and {{cvt|61|g}}, and were discovered some miles (some kilometers) short of the calculated point of impact of the main mass – which is yet to be found. Two more small fragments were found nearby in 1940.

Numerous reports of the Chicora meteor mention that a cow was struck and injured by a falling stone; other accounts say that the cow was killed by the stone.

The meteor was an [[olivine]]-[[hypersthene]] [[chondrite]]. Its remains were split between the [[Carnegie Museum of Natural History]] and the [[Smithsonian Institution]].

The sound and light of the exploding meteor were initially mistaken for an explosion in the [[gunpowder magazine|powder magazine]] at [[Winfield Township, Pennsylvania|West Winfield]], and was described by investigators F. W. Preston, E. P. Henderson and James R. Randolph as comparable in destructive power to the [[Halifax Explosion]] of 1917. "If it had landed on [[Pittsburgh]] there would have been few survivors," they stated.<ref>Lane, F. W. ''The Elements Rage'' (David & Charles 1966), p. 158.</ref>

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