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Friday, February 12, 2016

Asteroid securiy

Meteorite probably didn't kill man in India, NASA says


Image courtesy of NASA shows an artist's concept of a broken-up asteroid. (REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout)
NASA has questioned whether a man was killed by a meteorite in India on Saturday, following multiple reports that the victim died after an object plunged to Earth from space.
The Tamil Nadu government said that the meteorite crashed into an engineering college in Vellore in Southern India, killing one man and injuring three others, according to The Times of India.
Citing witnesses, The Times of India reports that the meteorite’s blast left a crater 5 feet deep and 2 feet wide.  Police recovered a black, pockmarked stone weighing 0.39 ounces, it said.

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