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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. MOD PARENT DOWN, FAKE TROLL ALERTS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    parent goes around saying random posters are trolls when they are not.

  2. Re:A Natural Disaster? by Richard_L_James · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Looks like Beagle2 has been rediscovered ;)