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<\/p>\nWhat on Earth could have created a hole like this in the roof of a house in Cartersville, Georgia?<\/p>\n
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Why, nothing. Nothing on Earth<\/em>, that is. Because here’s the culprit:<\/p>\n Yowza. That’s a stony meteorite, and in March 2009 it came screaming down out of the sky and punched that hole! The cube is one centimeter (about a half inch) on a side, and is used for scale. What a great specimen! And it weighs in at 294 grams — more than half a pound — so it’s hefty. It must’ve been moving at quite a clip when it smacked that house, probably a couple of hundred kilometers per hour. <\/p>\n And if you want to see it for yourself, and live near Atlanta, now’s your chance: The Tellus Science Museum<\/a> will have the rock on display — together with the roof and ceiling under it that get whacked — starting tonight at 6:00 p.m. as part of their Earth Day event.<\/p>\n I wonder if it’ll still be on display when Dragon*Con rolls around…<\/p>\n And if you’re wondering about the post title, then this might help<\/a>. Given the museum’s location, it seemed appropriate.<\/p>\n What on Earth could have created a hole like this in the roof of a house in Cartersville, Georgia? Why, nothing. Nothing on Earth, that is. Because here’s the culprit: Yowza. That’s a stony meteorite, and in March 2009 it came screaming down out of the sky and punched that hole! The cube is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"georgia_meteorite\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/04\/georgia_meteorite.jpg\" "\\"georgia_meteorite\\"")
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