[meteorite-list] Grapefruit-Sized Meteorite Smashes Through New Zealand Home

From: David Hardy <mdavidhardy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 13 13:43:38 2004
Message-ID: <20040613143406.11891.qmail_at_web20418.mail.yahoo.com>

Anyone else see this? This time the "experts" seem just a bit low on the
value!


WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A grapefruit-sized meteorite smashed through the roof of
a New Zealand house, hitting a couch and bouncing off the ceiling before coming
to rest under a computer.
 
 The 2.9 pound chunk of space debris dropped out of the skyand plummeted
through the tiled roof of the Auckland home on Saturday.
   
 "I was in the kitchen doing breakfast and there was this almighty explosion,"
owner Brenda Archer told the Sunday Star-Times newspaper.
   
 "It was like a bomb had gone off. I couldn't see anything,there was just
dust."
   
 Archer's one-year-old grandson had been playing nearby minutes before it hit.
   
 It is only the ninth meteorite found in New Zealand and the first to hit a
home.
   
 The Archers, who are following expert advice by drying the rock out in their
oven, plan to sell it or give it to a museum.
   
 Experts believe the meteorite, a chunk of an asteroid, could be worth more
than $6,300, the newspaper said.
   
  
 


        
                
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Received on Sun 13 Jun 2004 10:34:06 AM PDT