. >>> a meteorite that struck arkansas in 1930 has had quite the journey on earth maddie sexton with affiliate in jonesboro, arkansas has that story for us >> if you've ever seen a shooting star, that's a meteor if it actually survives and hits the earth, that's a meteorite. >> reporter: let's rewind. 93 years ago, a meteorite was seen as it was falling right here in northeast arkansas >> and this particular meteorite, which fell in 1930 near the finch community is the second largest observed meteorite fall in north america. >> reporter: but the story doesn't stop there >> that had hit back in the 1930s and had a really strange trail of events that followed it and was no longer in green county >> it was sold to a local school teacher, i believe, who then sold it to a collector who in turn sold to it the field museum in chicago >> we kind of did some internet search, good old google and found out what several of us thought, the chicago field museum did actually own that. >> but it didn't stay in chicago for long. >> some green county residents had seen ate the university of arkansas w