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A Nevada County man's home was destroyed in what locals believe was a meteor strike. Fire officials are investigating the claims. Meteor may have caused fire that destroyed California home ...
A possible meteor caught on video that “looks like a flaming basketball” falling from the sky may have been responsible for destroying a California man’s home.
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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.
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 ...
A slice of the meteorite, the National Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, DC. The day after the fall, local farmer Julius McKinney came upon the second-largest fragment from the same meteorite. [10] An Indianapolis-based lawyer bought it for the Smithsonian Institution. [10] The McKinney family was able to use the money to buy a car ...
The meteor "fragmented so violently," it shook buildings across the state and produced a loud boom, NASA said. NASA said on Facebook that over 100 eyewitnesses reported details of the meteor in ...
A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called fireballs or bolides , with the brightest air bursts known as superbolides .