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Andy_Stephenson

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Sun Jun-13-04 12:40 PM
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Grapefruit-Sized Meteorite Smashes Through New Zealand Home

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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A grapefruit-sized meteorite smashed through the roof of a New Zealand house, hitting a couch and bouncing off the ceiling before coming to rest under a computer.

The 2.9 pound chunk of space debris dropped out of the sky and plummeted through the tiled roof of the Auckland home on Saturday.

"I was in the kitchen doing breakfast and there was this almighty explosion," owner Brenda Archer told the Sunday Star-Times newspaper.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&ncid=564&e=19&u=/nm/20040613/ts_nm/space_newzealand_meteorite_dc_3

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