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Meteorite falls in Jaipur house


Sahara Samay
Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:11 UTC
Jaipur, India - A family in Jaipur told the scientists of Geological Survey of India (GSI) here that a meteorite fell in the courtyard of their home on Monday evening, Sahara Samay sources said.

A female member of the family told that a piece of sparkling stone fell in her home on Monday evening. I continued to look at it in awe for sometime before I went near it, she added.
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Telescope

Meteorite baffles Sangrur villagers

Sanjeev Chopra
Indian Express Newspapers
Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:49 UTC
Hotipur (Sangrur): This non-descript village near Khanauri today hit headlines when a meteorite fell in the fields on Wednesday night, leaving many villagers baffled. The police have taken possession of the 8-cm meteorite to hand it over to a three-member team of Geological Survey of India (GSI), led by a director-level officer, which is arriving tomorrow.
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Bomb

Mysterious Loud Booms Heard in Camden County

Joyce L. Miller
lakesunleader.com
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:47 UTC
CAMDEN COUNTY ' The United States Air Force has launched an investigation and hope to provide residents who heard a series of loud booms Monday with an answer to clear up any confusion.
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Question

Flashback Nebraska's Loud boom probably a plane, say officals


Bellvue Leader
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:56 UTC
It was just before 11 a.m. Wednesday when Bellevue police Capt. Herb Evers heard the boom.

Evers was in the city's fleet maintenance facility, talking to a mechanic.

"The windows in the garage doors rattled," Evers said. "It was like you could feel the concussion."

He thought a plane had exploded and called the base police at Offutt Air Force Base. The person who answered the phone said, "Yeah, I know. We heard it, too."

Comment: Does it add up for you, readers?

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Question

Flashback Sonic Boom?: Sri Lanka villagers report 'earthquake like' tremor


Colombo Page
Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:56 UTC
Colombo: The residents of Lunugamwehera in the Hambanthota district of Sri Lanka�s Southern Province say they experienced something similar to an earthquake in the early hours today.
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Question

Wall shaking, window rattling booms heard in Missouri still a mystery

Joyce L. Miller
Lake Sun Leader
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:40 UTC
The United States Air Force has launched an investigation and hope to provide residents who heard a series of loud booms Monday with an answer to clear up any confusion.
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Meteor

The threat from outer space: the ultimate environmental catastrophe


Economist.com
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:36 UTC
One of the main weaknesses of the environmental movement has been its unfortunate predilection for using doom-laden language and catastrophic superlatives to describe problems that are serious but not immediately disastrous. But one calamity that truly deserves such a description is almost never talked about. There are tens of millions of asteroids in the solar system, and several thousand move in orbits that take them close to Earth. Sooner or later, one of them is going to hit it.

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Several have done so in the past. Earth's active surface and enthusiastic weather conspire to scrub the tell-tale impact craters from the planet's surface relatively quickly, but the pockmarked surface of the moon - where such scars endure for much longer - testifies to the amount of rubble floating in the solar system. Earth's thick atmosphere makes it better protected than the moon: asteroids smaller than about 35 metres (115 feet) across will burn up before hitting its surface. Nevertheless, plenty of craters exist. The Earth Impact Database in Canada lists more than 170.

Comment: Well, SOTT has been saying it all along, and supported it with research and data: Forget About Global Warming: We're One Step From Extinction!

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Question

Military spokesman responds to reports of sonic booms, shaking in California


SanLuisObispo.com
Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:23 UTC
Sheriff's Department officials reported receiving dozens of calls from residents around the county who reported feeling shaking and loud booms at three different times before about 1:30 p.m. Residents from California Valley to Arroyo Grande reported feeling the shaking and hearing the booms.

Comment: From the comments section of the article:
I've lived in California all of my 48 years, and I've heard sonic booms many times before, including the big double boom of the shuttle coming in. This was much different. It was 3 or 4 seconds of what sounded like a jackhammer on my walls, followed by a window rattling boom.

If the Air Force is playing with a new secret toy, fine, say "no comment", but this story isn't working for me at all.


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Star

Aucklanders treated to meteorite display


TV3
Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:48 UTC
Early risers in Auckland were treated to a natural fireworks display this morning - spotting a meteorite flashing across the West Coast sky.

Comment: With the amount of reported fireballs and meteorites falling on earth in recent years, and the amount of UFO sightings multiplying as time goes by, there is of course "no cause for concern".

Back to sleep folks!

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Attention

Flashback Mystery Object Crashes Through Massachusetts Ceiling - Meteorite?


TheBostonChannel.com
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:37 UTC
At Gerrity Stone in Woburn, they know a lot about rocks. But they can't identify the one that punched a hole through their roof the other day.

NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported that experts are examining the object, trying to determine exactly what it is.

"No one around here has ever seen anything like this. A real mystery," said Gerrity's Alan Weiner.

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