Steve Gurysh
2012
High altitude ballooning equipment, photographs of impact site courtesy of Dr. Mark Anders, and video documentation of an attempt to send a fragment of the Peekskill meteorite back into space
single channel video, 6 minute loop
On October 9 1992, a bright fireball is observed by sixteen independent videographers, first witnessed over West Virginia, travelling in a northeasterly direction. One eyewitness reported that it appeared at first yellow in color, and then glowed green before splitting into several fragments. On impact, the mass pierced through the trunk of Michelle Knapp’s parked Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. Despite its rather common composition, Peekskill became the first meteorite to be recovered following videotaped atmospheric passage.
On March 1 2012, I purchased a fragment of the Peekskill meteorite on eBay. I like to imagine this strange economy of matter as a parallel to a broader cosmic exchange of stuff passing through voids, black holes, black markets; breaking through atmospheres, airspaces, checkpoints, and checkouts.
2012
High altitude ballooning equipment, photographs of impact site courtesy of Dr. Mark Anders, and video documentation of an attempt to send a fragment of the Peekskill meteorite back into space
single channel video, 6 minute loop
On October 9 1992, a bright fireball is observed by sixteen independent videographers, first witnessed over West Virginia, travelling in a northeasterly direction. One eyewitness reported that it appeared at first yellow in color, and then glowed green before splitting into several fragments. On impact, the mass pierced through the trunk of Michelle Knapp’s parked Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. Despite its rather common composition, Peekskill became the first meteorite to be recovered following videotaped atmospheric passage.
On March 1 2012, I purchased a fragment of the Peekskill meteorite on eBay. I like to imagine this strange economy of matter as a parallel to a broader cosmic exchange of stuff passing through voids, black holes, black markets; breaking through atmospheres, airspaces, checkpoints, and checkouts.
