After years of identifying meteor'wrongs', Prof. Calvin Alexander (shown left) met with Bruce and Nelva Lilienthal (shown below) who brought in a rock they found on their farm in Arlington, MN.  Through analysis at the Earth Sciences' Electron Microrpobe lab, it was determined that this is, indeed, an authentic meteorite, and quite possibly a piece from the same meteorite that the namesake of our school, Newton Horace Winchell, discovered back in the 1800s. Meteorites are rare, and in Minnesota, we see a lot of meteor'wrongs' due to the various types of rocks and mineral left behind by the glaciers.

(photo credits: Alexander and Lilienthal photos by Sheri Alexander;  microprobe image, Anette von der Handt, Microprobe Manager)