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Meteorite lands in my old home town, crashes into a bedroom!

dvandorn View Member Profile	Mar 8 2007, 02:03 AM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15	I chatted on the phone with my elderly mother today, who mentioned that a couple of days ago, a meteorite landed in someone's house back in my old home town! Well, OK -- it might have been a piece of a satellite, but it might have been a meteor. And while I was born in Normal, Illinois, Bloomington/Normal is a "twin city" area, two towns that long ago grew together into a single (if smallish) metro area. But still... QUOTE BLOOMINGTON - A Bloomington couple caught a falling star Monday morning, not quite in their pockets but in a bedroom of their house. A chunk of metal that crashed through the bedroom window of David and Dee Riddle's home, 25 Partner Place, just after 9:30 a.m. appears to be a meteorite, but it also could be a piece of space junk, according to preliminary analysis by several Illinois State University geology professors. I almost feel like going outside, looking up in the sky, and taunting, "nyah, nyah, missed me!!" By about 33 years... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain

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dvandorn Meteorite lands in my old home town Mar 8 2007, 02:03 AM

nprev Sure looks like it...bet she'll be able to mor... Mar 8 2007, 02:14 AM

Mongo QUOTE "We were just lucky no one was sitting ... Mar 8 2007, 02:46 AM

Phil Stooke Allow me to recommend my personal brand of meteori... Mar 8 2007, 06:51 PM

lyford Keeps those rhinoceros away too Mar 8 2007, 08:27 PM

ElkGroveDan Phil I have a can of penguin repellant that's ... Mar 8 2007, 08:43 PM

NMRguy Bloomington-Normal, huh? Well at least it didn... Mar 9 2007, 12:17 AM

dvandorn Yep, they've been working on different parts o... Mar 9 2007, 06:59 AM

CosmicRocker Speaking of "lucky," there is a differen... Mar 11 2007, 06:10 AM

JTN There's an article in Astronomy suggesting tha... Mar 13 2007, 08:51 PM

nprev Oh, man... ...I was going to rent Fargo this week... Mar 14 2007, 01:17 AM

ElGrifon Here is a link with some photos of the object (woo... Mar 16 2007, 02:09 AM

CosmicRocker Interesting... Thanks for posting that, Joe. I e... Mar 17 2007, 05:20 AM

ElGrifon Here is another possible new Illinois iron meteori... Mar 21 2007, 02:58 PM

jamescanvin Moved posts to the 2008 Perseids thread. Aug 12 2008, 03:01 PM

Shaka QUOTE (dvandorn @ Mar 7 2007, 04:03 PM) .... Aug 15 2008, 02:01 AM

nprev Don't work too hard; somebody might have beate... Aug 15 2008, 02:37 AM

Shaka Yeah, Podner, but they ain't got a woodchipper... Aug 15 2008, 05:29 AM

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