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| DATE | 2007-01-06 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Kryptonite falls to earth
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070105-space-rock.html
January 5, 2007—It looks like a shiny lump of fool's gold, and it
certainly has authorities fooled as to just what it is.
This metallic rocklike object crashed through the roof of a New Jersey
home on January 2, ripping through the ceiling and ricocheting off a
tiled bathroom floor before lodging in a wall.
No one was hurt by the impact, but local detectives trying to identify
the mysterious debris may have their professional egos a little bruised.
"I've never seen anything like it in my career," Lt. Robert Brightman
of the Freehold Township Police Department told the Associated Press at
a press conference yesterday.
Experts from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration have already
inspected the 13-ounce (0.4 kilogram) lump and determined that it is
not a stray airplane part.
Another test found that the object is not radioactive, although it does
appear to be magnetic.
Some astronomers have speculated that that the object could be a
meteorite, since the Quadrantid meteor shower occurs annually in early
January.
But meteor showers typically involve small particles of icy rock, not big
metal chunks, so if the mass is a meteorite, it's likely an unusual one.
Other theories have suggested that the lump is a tool lost by an astronaut
or flotsam from an orbiting satellite that melted as it entered Earth's
atmosphere.
Brightman said scientists are currently testing the object and hope to
have results by the end of the week.
—Blake de Pastino
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