Posted on 02/10/2016 3:42:34 PM PST by BenLurkin
The Times of India reports that the meteorite's blast left a crater 5 feet deep and 2 feet wide. Police recovered a black, pockmarked stone weighing 0.39 ounces, it said.
However, NASA scientists in the U.S. said in a public statement that photos of the site were more consistent with "a land based explosion," The New York Times reports.
In an email to The New York Times, NASA's Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson explained that death by meteorite impact is so rare that one has never been confirmed in recorded history. "There have been reports of injuries, but even those were extremely rare before the Chelyabinsk event three years ago," he said, citing the meteor that entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over Russia in 2013.
Experts from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics on Tuesday examined the impact crater using metal detectors to check the site for the presence of metals and dug up the soil.
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Is the black god in the silver genitalia in Mecca calving?
My guess is frozen poop from an aircraft toilet.
s the black god in the silver genitalia in Mecca calving?
No, but Hillary! is ...
Unless it has to do with sharia or global warming.....what does NASA know these days?
Frozen poop from airplane pottie dump
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