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Meteorite Strikes Indian Village

Posted by michael on from the failed-their-saving-throw dept.

PS writes "The BBC is reporting that a village in eastern India was struck by a meteorite Saturday evening, wrecking several houses and injuring about twenty people. Fortunately, no one appears to have been killed by the impact or subsequent fires. CNN suggests that a second village near the impact site may have also been struck by part of the meteorite." Human/meteorite encounters are not entirely unheard of.

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  1. Re:What's all this then? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, NASA does not track everything larger than a tennis ball. The U.S. space command (part of the air force) tracks most things larger than a tennis ball in low Earth orbit . If this came from interplanetary space there is almost no chance to see it. There are search programs going on, but right now they cover only the northern hemisphere, and with a size down to about 100 meters in diameter. The Australian government recently slashed funding for the only southern-hemisphere search.

    So in fact, it is quite possible that a dinosaur-killer could hit New York tomorrow and wipe us all out, and we would have NO warning. Thank your government for their lack of foresight for that.