Rain of iron on Earth

Going through some articles on Digg, I noticed one with the unassuming title of Sikhote-Alin Meteorite. Regular readers here know I am a sucker for meteorites, and Sikhote-Alins are my favorites. I own several small ones. So I clicked through to find myself on a blog called Black Holes and Stuff. This particular post was about the Sikhote-Alin meteorite fall that occurred in the old Soviet Union back in 1947. They are treasured by collectors for their beauty and unusual shapes. To my delight, on that blog post I found an embedded YouTube video that's a condensed version of an old Soviet documentary about the finding of the debris! This is actually a pretty cool doco. I think I may have groaned out loud when they showed a worker finding a chunk bigger than his hand; it would be worth well over $10,000 today. Sikhote-Alin sells for $2/gram or more, ...