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How To Hunt Down A Meteor

WUNC | By Dick Gordon
Published March 4, 2013 at 12:19 PM EST
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Mike Hankey

Here is what's in this program of The Story:

When a meteor exploded over Russia a few weeks ago, the meteor hunters packed their cold weather gear and headed for the cold and snow to search out fragments of the explosion. Dick speaks with Mike Hankey about how he got his start hunting down these fragments in rural Amish farmland. He has designed a software program used by the American Meteor Society.

Also in this program: Dick speaks with Olympic wrestler Clarissa Chun who is joining forces to lobby the International Olympic Committee to keep wrestling in Olympic competition; and writer John Irving, a life-long wrestler, speaks from his exercise room.

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Dick Gordon
Before coming to North Carolina Public Radio to host The Story, Dick Gordon was host of The Connection, a daily national call-in talk show produced in Boston, from 2001 to 2005. Gordon is well-known in the profession as an experienced, seasoned journalist with an extensive background in both international and domestic reporting. He was a war correspondent and back-up host for the CBC's This Morning, a national current affairs radio program. An award winning journalist, he has also served as a Parliamentary reporter, Moscow correspondent and South Asia correspondent for both radio and television.
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