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Meteorite Reportedly Hits SUV in Ontario
Posted by Guy Pirro on 10/18/2009 7:14 PM
When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash on the night of September 25, 2009, he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Garchinski chalked up the incident to vandalism and filed a police report. According to University of Western Ontario scientists, what hit the SUV was a golf ball sized fragment of a freshly fallen 4.6 billion years old meteorite, which had been captured on video as it entered the Earth's atmosphere.
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