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Meteorite smashes into factory compound leaving 20ft crater in ‘celestial event’
Daily Star ^ | Sofie Jackson

Posted on 02/14/2020 11:59:26 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

This is the instant an unexpected meteorite smashed into a city in India, vaporising on impact and leaving a 20ft crater.

Luckily, the space rock did not hit any residential areas and instead impacted in a factory compound in an industrial part of the city,

"I was urinating... I saw a bright light I was scared I ran away midway," confessed one witness.

“My city is in now plot for sci-fi movie,” joked another viewer on social media.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; boom; catastrophism; india; meteor; meteorite; meteorites; meteors; science
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To: Nik Naym

“Not really as rare as you might think.”

Obviously, you did not read the article!


21 posted on 02/15/2020 3:45:23 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

Yes, I did.


22 posted on 02/15/2020 5:07:51 AM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)
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To: DAC21

Oddly, no video of the crater and they were trying to send experts in but there are CCTV cameras in the town. So it’s a remote sheetheap with internet CCTVs.


23 posted on 02/15/2020 5:15:41 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Nik Naym

If you had, you would have attributed the quote to the article and not to me!


24 posted on 02/15/2020 9:12:40 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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from the 1990s:

http://www.google.com/search?q=peekskill+meteorite


25 posted on 02/15/2020 9:27:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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