Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Meteorite hits house in Illinois!

No, this isn't a 1950's headline, it's a recent story about a woman in Bloomington, IL. The report recounts Dee Riddle's discovery that had something crash through her bedroom window and hit her computer table around 9:30am on Monday morning.

Was it really a meteorite? Could it have been some neighborhood kids playing? What about a piece of man-made space debris? What is it, really? According to Illinois State University professor Robert Nelson, the U.S. Geological Survey's meteorite center in Arizona is working on the answer to those questions.

See the full AP story on CNN.

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