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Meteorite Crashes Through New Zealand Roof

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wear-a-hat dept.

freitasm writes "The New Zealand Herald and Stuff are reporting on a 1.3kg, four billion-year-old rock that fell through the roof of a house in suburban Auckland, New Zealand. Their insurance company will pay for the hole in the roof and couch and two holes in the ceiling. The meteorite itself, a chunk of an asteroid, could have been basketball-sized when it impacted Earth's atmosphere at 15km a second. By the time it hit the house, its velocity had probably slowed to 100-200m a second."

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  1. Re:rawr by mattyrobinson69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no wonder you posted AC - rocks indeed! humf!

  2. Re:why claim the insurance? by Trigulus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Your sig is a quote from the classic Moby Dick you idiot. Yes the lines were spoken in a Star Trek movie but that does not give you the right to mis-credit the quote. If you read Moby Dick you will enjoy all things Star Trek even more as there are many references and theme parallels.

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