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Meteorite wrecks houses in India
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Posted on 09/28/2003 12:18:54 PM PDT by scotslad
At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite crashed to Earth in eastern India. Reports say hundreds of people in the state of Orissa panicked when the fireball streamed across the sky.
Burning fragments were said to have fallen over a wide area, destroying several houses.
An official in Orissa said the authorities were assessing the damage and trying to recover what was left of the meteor.
Reports from Orissa said windows rattled as the meteor passed overhead.
"It was all there for just a few seconds but it was like daylight everywhere," one resident said.
Rarity
Experts estimate about 100 tons of extraterrestrial dust grains fall to earth each day.
Occasionally, a dark pebble or fist-size object will rain down, with boulder-sized objects or bigger being a historical rarity.
The only recorded fatality from a meteor was an Egyptian dog that had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in 1911.
Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by a meteorite from Mars.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: asteroid; doom; india; meteor; meteorite; orissa; space
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:18:55 PM PDT
by
scotslad
To: scotslad
The only recorded fatality from a meteor was an Egyptian dog that had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in 1911.
Seven decades later, scientists recognised the dog had been struck by a meteorite from Mars.
MARS ATTACKS!
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:22:00 PM PDT
by
tet68
(multiculturalism is an ideological academic fantasy maintained in obvious bad faith. M. Thompson)
To: *Space
Chicken Little alert. Apparently the sky IS falling.
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:22:42 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: scotslad
Space Junk?
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:22:52 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery)
To: scotslad
Ordinarily when a meterorite hits a house, no one is hurt, occasionally one person is.
They sure know how to pack them tighter in India.
So9
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:23:46 PM PDT
by
Servant of the 9
(The voices tell me to stay home and clean the guns.)
To: scotslad
At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite crashed to Earth in eastern India... Burning fragments were said to have fallen over a wide area, destroying several houses. I hate it when that happens.
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:27:04 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(This tagline has been suspendered or bananaed.)
To: scotslad
At least 20 people are reported to have been injured after a meteorite crashed to Earth in eastern India... Burning fragments were said to have fallen over a wide area, destroying several houses. I hate it when that happens.
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:27:04 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(This tagline has been suspendered or bananaed.)
To: scotslad
Relatives want to know whom to sue!
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:27:04 PM PDT
by
Humidston
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law)
To: Humidston
Relatives want to know whom to sue!This is Bush's fault, another one of his misleading failures.
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:28:25 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(This tagline has been suspendered or bananaed.)
To: Jeff Chandler
hiccup!
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posted on
09/28/2003 12:28:53 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(This tagline has been suspendered or bananaed.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Yeah, the Bush tax cut caused this meteorite to kill people in India, the earthquake in Japan, and the coming hydrovolcanic eruption of Yellowstone!
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posted on
09/28/2003 1:16:34 PM PDT
by
PokeyJoe
(Don't talk about my armchair unless you know how to pull the recliner lever.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
09/28/2003 1:17:19 PM PDT
by
4mycountry
(You say I'm a brat like it's a bad thing.)
To: 4mycountry
Probably wasn't a meteorite,just something lobbed in by a tech worker whose job was sent there.
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posted on
09/28/2003 1:36:59 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: scotslad
Proof that God does not like India..he thought the earthquakes and floods would have made his point...but NO...
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posted on
09/28/2003 2:02:51 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(shoot low, they are riding telemarkers...shoot very low..)
To: scotslad
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posted on
09/28/2003 2:34:41 PM PDT
by
Orion78
(Who died and made you thread monitor?)
To: hadaclueonce
"Proof that God does not like India..he thought the earthquakes and floods would have made his point...but NO..." Cretins like you are the reason India does not send troops to Iraq.
To: hadaclueonce
"Proof that God does not like India..he thought the earthquakes and floods would have made his point...but NO..." Cretins like you are the reason India does not send troops to Iraq.
To: tet68
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posted on
09/28/2003 2:37:19 PM PDT
by
Orion78
(Who died and made you thread monitor?)
To: scotslad
Found It.
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posted on
09/28/2003 2:42:11 PM PDT
by
Orion78
(Who died and made you thread monitor?)
To: tet68
My bad, the link I gave you was misreported deaths by meteorites.
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posted on
09/28/2003 2:43:35 PM PDT
by
Orion78
(Who died and made you thread monitor?)
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