BBC: California's 'Meteor Zombies' Hunt for Fragments Worth 20x More Than Gold - May 2012
BBC:加州的'流星喪屍'狩獵比黃金價值多20倍的碎片 - 2012年5月
2012-05-04
One of the most important meteor strikes in a generation has brought treasure-hunters flocking to a small town in northern California for the second time in 150 years.
在一代人中的一次最重要流星襲擊已帶來成群的尋寶獵人往加州北部的一個小鎮,為150年來的第二次。
The great gold rush began in the Coloma Valley in 1848, and now a meteor rush is underway as stardust fragments sell for 20 times the price of gold.
大淘金熱於1848年開始在科洛馬谷,及現在一場尋流星熱正在進行,因為星塵的碎片售出是黃金價格的20倍。
The meteorite is thought to have been the size of a minivan as it hit the earth's atmosphere and broke up, scattering rare rocks across the California countryside.
隕石被猜想是一輛小型貨車的大小,當它擊中地球的大氣層和分解,散射罕見的岩石在整個加州鄉郊。
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