At approximately 9:20 pm on Tuesday, June 23, a large fireball was seen by multiple eyewitnesses in the night sky over southern Arizona. So far sightings have been reported as far south as Green Valley and as far north as Phoenix, with a concentration of reports from in and around Tucson.

So, after seventeen months of work Meteorite Men is finally a reality.

Anyone who took part in the Great Texas Fireball Hunt of February, 2009 will remember it for as long as they live.

During my childhood years in London Monty Python's Flying Circus was the most controversial and talked-about show on television. My father wryly encouraged me to stay up until 9:25 pm and watch each new weekly BBC episode. It aired on a school night, which worried my mom and, anyway, she found the racy and provocative content entirely inappropriate for a young lad. My mom was a brilliant woman, and that was one of the few times I remember her being clearly in error. I remain a Python fan to this day and recently, as a most thoughtful gift, received the entire collected episodes in a DVD boxed set.

As Sherlock Holmes used to say to his pal Watson whenever a new chase began: "The game's afoot!" Two independent groups led by my colleagues Ron Dilulio, and Mike Farmer, have found small freshly-fallen stone meteorites on the ground near Waco, Texas. They are almost certainly associated with the bright daytime fireball witnessed over Austin, TX on the afternoon of February 15.

Unlike many of my colleagues, I really enjoy doing media interviews, especially when I have the pleasure of working with a particularly thoughtful, bright and inventive journalist. A few weeks ago, I received a call from Eleanor Perry-Smith, a writer at Northwestern University in Illinois. She was working on a the premiere issue of a hip new science magazine named SciQ. With a tag line like "Feed Your Head" how could I possibly resist participating?