[meteorite-list] NPA 11-10-1982 (Wethersfield) Meteorite Crashes through house (again)

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri Feb 25 10:56:08 2005
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Paper: The Gettysburg Times
City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1982
Page: 3 (of 20)

Meteorite crashes through house

     WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) - An object believed to be a meteorite crashed
through the roof of a home in this Hartford suburb Monday evening, but
occupants of the house escaped injury, police reported.
     The rock was "slightly bigger than a softball," said police officer
Alan Powers, who added that he believed ti was a meteorite.
     It landed first in the living room of the single family home owned by
Robert Donahue on Church Street and then "bounced into the living room,"
Powers said.
     Donahue and his wife were home at the time but were in another room
watching television when the object smashed through the roof.
     Powers said his department had received numerous phone calls from
residents who reported they had seen "bright lights and then heard an
explosion" - phenomena associated with meteors rushing through the
atmosphere.
     The rock was taken to the police station and authorities said they
would investigate it further Tuesday to try to determine its origin.
     Donahue could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press on
Monday night; telephone calls to his home went unanswered, and he refused to
talk on camera with a Hartford television station.
     Meteors - some huge fireballs, others tiny specks - bombard Earth's
atmosphere at the rate of one million an hour; only about 150 meteors a year
survive the trip through the atmosphere and hit the surface of the Earth.
Those that make it are called meteorites.

(end)

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