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Although the meteorite had crashed through the Hodges home and hit Mrs. Hodges, the owner of the house, Birdie Guy, declared ownership. [8] After a year-long legal battle, [7] Mrs. Guy and the Hodgeses agreed on a $500 settlement and Mrs. Hodges was able to keep the meteorite. [8] Ann Hodges had immense, although short-term, attention for the ...
The meteorite was confiscated by the Sylacauga police chief, who then turned it over to the United States Air Force. [7] Both the Hodgeses and their landlord, Bertie Guy, claimed ownership of the rock, Guy's claim being that it had fallen on her property. [7] The Hodgeses and Guy settled, with the Hodgeses paying $500 for the rock. [7]
The Auckland meteorite, also known as the Ellerslie meteorite, [2] landed in Ellerslie, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, on 12 June 2004. It crashed through the roof of a house and landed in the living room. As the ninth meteorite to ever be discovered in New Zealand, it is the only one to have ever hit a house in the country.
The meteorite, S2, was first discovered in 2014. It hit the planet about 3.26 billion years ago and is estimated to have been up to 200 times larger than the space rock that later killed the ...
When a gargantuan space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, crashed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago, many may assume that it would have wreaked havoc on a young planet. ...
After a 4.5-billion-year journey through space, a car-size rock fell to Earth on October 7, 2008 — and it contained a bunch of tiny diamonds.
An operation to recover it from the lake began on 10 September 2013, [18] and concluded on 16 October 2013, with the raising of the rock with the mass of 540 kg (1,190 lb). [7] It was examined by scientists and handed over to the local authorities, [ 19 ] [ 20 ] who put it on display at the Chelyabinsk State Museum of Local Lore.
The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that doomed the dinosaurs and many other life forms. Researchers assessed ...