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Pennsylvania Meteor Report

Posted by michael on from the area-51 dept.

squiggy writes: "Turns out the scorched corn field in Pennsylvania, and the reports of car sized space rocks hitting the earth were a bit overthe top. Likely, the object was very small, disintegrated before impact, and anything that might have reached the ground intact would have been cold to the touch. The full story is here"

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  1. Oddly enough... by daeley · · Score: 4

    According to the report, Mark Wahlberg emerged from the 'object.'

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    I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  2. Over the top? by geekplus · · Score: 3
    Then perhaps you'd care to explain the 8" diameter, heat-cauterized, crater in my chest?

    No, the answer is not Cowboy Neal!

  3. Unsurprising... by nanojath · · Score: 5
    This is unsurprising, since a car-sized metor would have basically blown up a good size chunk of whatever county it landed in, not just scorched a cornfield.

    Actually, for that matter if you read the original story it was saying baseball sized or thereabouts. If anything was the size of a car, maybe the fireball was, but that says next to nothing about the size of the actual meteor.

    Believe me, when a car-sized meteor hits a populated area you won't need to go to Slashdot to hear the story.

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    It Is the Nature of Information to Transgress Artificial Boundaries

  4. well, by cosmo7 · · Score: 4

    if they had fallen in Europe they'd be car-sized.