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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. It's all a Lie! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you were using your eyes for a second and watch the video, you will realize it's not a meteor.
    Like the article title said "fireball" but I saw some kind of light in it.

    Then look at the 3rd picture(rock made a small impact pit). Somebody put that rock there, made a little hole just perfect for his old sample collected some years ago. I have seen dried up land like that before. So where did that big fireball go? they only found little stones.

    Then get this "Professional Meteorite Hunters"(NASA and CIA!!!).
    How often do we get hit by a meteor? Rarely.