What about the owner of this car that was struck by a meteorite in Upstate New York?
Peekskill meteorite car, still a hit, heads to Paris for 25th anniversary show
Michael P. McKinneyOct. 5, 2017
PEEKSKILL, N.Y. — Twenty-five years after a meteorite tore through the trunk of a teenager’s Chevy Malibu Classic in this northern Westchester County city, the astonishingly rare event continues to anoint the car with stardust.
The 1980 Chevy will head to Paris over the next few weeks to be part of an exhibition on meteorites at France’s national natural history museum — Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle — the car’s current owner said.
On Oct. 9, 1992, the 26.5-pound space rock — captured by 16 cameras in several eastern states as it alighted across that Friday night sky — crashed through the back of the car owned at the time by 18-year-old Michelle Knapp, who had parked the Chevy in her driveway at 242 Wells St. She had bought the car for about $400.
“It’s going to be celebrating its 25th anniversary by being sent on an ocean cruise,” said Darryl Pitt, who now owns the car as well as portions of the meteorite.
Pitt, who is founder and curator of the Macovich Collection of Meteorites, said the Peekskill meteorite car will travel by container ship for about two weeks and is expected to be exhibited for about four months in Paris. He said the exhibition is called Météorites: Entre Ciel et Terre — (Meteorites, Between Heaven and Earth).
