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[NatureDevil]

Here is the article I picked up today.

[glow=red,2,300]Grapefruit-Sized Meteorite Smashes Through NZ Home

Jun 13, 1:17 AM (ET)
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 1.3 kg (2.9 lb) chunk of space debris dropped out of the sky and plummeted through the tiled roof of the Auckland home 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 NZ$10,000 ($6,290), the newspaper said.[/glow]

Wow, nature's devastating lottery ticket.

NatureDevil

[MuseAphelion]

Archer's house hit by meteroite ... there's a Star Trek joke in that. I found a shot of the rock itself.



My question is what purpose would drying it in the oven serve? The article I got the image from didn't mention that part. It did however, mention that the odds of having a meteroite hit your home in the billions-to-one range, even though this is the third event in two years. Last year a house in Louisiana and one in India were both struck in September. Could the September Perseids be packing more heat that nomal?

Duck!

[Chicago Astronomer - Astro Joe]

I'm telling you all again!!!, We are in the beginnings of some sort of debris field...heading our way!!!

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(Jumping up and down as I say this)

If you look closely, there seems to be appendages emanating out from the space rock, (which kinda looks like a space potato.) See...thats why they put it into the oven on high. They had the sour cream and butter all ready, when the authorities arrived, and felt embarrassed.

On one of the appendages, there is a symbol of alien dominance. They will bury us with space potatos, or choke us by attempting to eat them.

It's all planned out.

It has been stated that we already know of the space junk coming our way, and to acclimate to it, movies have been made to prepare us for it. I wonder what the movie "Glitter" was preparing us for?

Put it in the oven..........how silly..... Wheres the kiwi?