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Grapefruit-Sized Meteorite Smashes Through NZ Home
Reuters ^ | 6/13/04

Posted on 06/13/2004 1:16:26 AM PDT by freebilly

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To: freebilly

When did the White House know about the meteorite, and why didn't they protect the house?


21 posted on 06/13/2004 2:17:57 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: freebilly
"What's everyone so worked up about? So there's a comet -- big deal. It'll burn up in our atmosphere and what's ever left will be no bigger than a chihuahua's head. "


22 posted on 06/13/2004 2:19:07 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: Dallas59

With my luck, if a meteor fell near me, I'd end up in the tub and all green, like Stephen King in that movie.

"Lordie, don't it itch though!"


23 posted on 06/13/2004 2:21:45 AM PDT by djf
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To: Dallas59

Here is a place I found on a goog search for buying and selling space rocks.

Google Search: Recent meteorites
Address:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Recent+meteorites


24 posted on 06/13/2004 2:36:10 AM PDT by oceanperch ( 04 Bush.....He will continue to lead America with the Lords Blessing)
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To: whatever___whatever

Do we need another class of victims? If they're just stupid, then that's ok. If they got hit by a meteor, damn, we'd just have to take care of them the rest of their lives.


26 posted on 06/13/2004 2:56:06 AM PDT by djf
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To: freebilly
Pic of meteorite can be found here.
27 posted on 06/13/2004 2:59:19 AM PDT by gungadin
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To: DB

No its true
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national_story_skin/430517?format=html


28 posted on 06/13/2004 3:09:57 AM PDT by Emmess
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To: freebilly

REM ruined popular music. Since then all the bands have tried to emulate them. REM had a couple of good songs but boy, they sure got boring (like most of today's bands) at the end.


29 posted on 06/13/2004 3:11:43 AM PDT by raybbr (My 1.4 cents - It used to be 2 cents, but after taxes - you get the idea.)
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To: gungadin

Looks like a dinosaur skull... Size of a grapefruit?? I bet it doesn't taste nearly as yucky as a grapefruit.


30 posted on 06/13/2004 3:14:22 AM PDT by graycamel
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Yeah, let's dry it out....

How did it get wet? I Picture a flaming hot meteorite crashing down from the sky, being red-hot, not wet like a sponge.

31 posted on 06/13/2004 3:15:23 AM PDT by capt. norm (Rap is to music what the Etch-A-Sketch is to art.)
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Two words:

The Blob.


32 posted on 06/13/2004 3:20:24 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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Jordy!


34 posted on 06/13/2004 3:31:52 AM PDT by Dallas59
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To: freebilly

The sheep are even more terrified than normal.


35 posted on 06/13/2004 3:33:14 AM PDT by Carcharodon
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I didn't hear of any meteorites falling over your way Carch.


36 posted on 06/13/2004 3:35:51 AM PDT by gungadin
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No meteorites over Edinburgh, granted, but as an expat Aussie a reserve the right to make sheep=shagging jibes about the Kiwis whenever possible.

That said, I'm hoping they will clean up the Poms in the cricket tonight and then the Froggies will do them in the European championships too, just for good measure.


37 posted on 06/13/2004 3:42:37 AM PDT by Carcharodon
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To: capt. norm
How did it get wet? I Picture a flaming hot meteorite crashing down from the sky, being red-hot, not wet like a sponge.

Eh, maybe it hit some house piping.

But that it wasn't hot or didn't start a fire is a tip off the story is TRUE.

As noted by another poster, meteorites of this nature are room temperature as they fall, and do not start fires. A dead giveaway of a fake meteorite story is someone reporting finding a "glowing" rock or a rock in the middle of a brushfire or something, because movies show meteorites that way.

38 posted on 06/13/2004 3:46:29 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: gungadin

Looks like petrified poop from a large animal. Elephant dung maybe.


39 posted on 06/13/2004 3:52:35 AM PDT by oceanperch ( 04 Bush.....He will continue to lead America with the Lords Blessing)
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To: freebilly

As urban sprawl spreads, the chances of getting hit by meteorites increases. I think this might be a good issue for Al Gore to get involved in. He the right man at the right time to protect us from meteorites (and windmills!).


40 posted on 06/13/2004 4:24:06 AM PDT by Batrachian
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