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Meteorite Hunters Find the West Texas Fireball

Posted by kdawson on from the sweet-dreams-and-flying-machines-in-pieces-on-the-ground dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A fireball streaked over Austin, Texas on February 15 producing sonic booms and startling people for hundreds of miles. The video of the event was shown on national television and viewed by thousands of people on the Net. The first news reports speculated that the fireball might have been debris from a February 13th collision between two satellites over Siberia but space experts said that the object was probably a meteor. Now this has been confirmed: experienced meteorite hunters located a strewnfield about 120 miles north of the filming site of the Austin cameraman and have recovered over 100 freshly fallen meteorites."

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  1. OOOH, that West Texas Fireball... by retech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry I was thinking this was a post about a small taco stand that kept me up 'till the early morning last Saturday.

    1. Re:OOOH, that West Texas Fireball... by hoytak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, your user name is close to the verb "retch". This event must be pretty burned in your memory, so that's understandable.

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    2. Re:OOOH, that West Texas Fireball... by retech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I've updated my calender, I'll give this a laugh a week from next Monday. Until then...

  2. Re:Pure speculation... by chromas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Posting to undo my accidental offtopic mod. Sorry.

  3. Re:Pure speculation... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wish to heck I knew how the mod point system worked. I used to get them on a weekly basis. Haven't had any in over a year now.

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  4. Re:West, Texas, not West Texas by skoaldipper · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To all my fellow Cezhs in Texas also reared off Gerber kolaches and Shiner from a plastic nipple, you'll want to make these pilgramiges somtime in your lifetime; Schulenberg, Caldwell, Ennis, and West (downtown), in that order, all in Texas. And perchance you happen upon a store carrying "sausage kolaches"; that is an abomination to any pure blooded Czech. Flee for your life, and your heritage. "sausage kolaches" are a myth, much like "stimulus spending" or "Crisco light". True Czechs call "sausage kolaches" pigs in a blanket. Politely leave the store, come back, and watch the steam sizzle off the door as you sprinkle holy water upon it. Uz nic, dekuji.

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