Grapefruit-Sized Meteorite Smashes Through New Zealand Home

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15 June 2004
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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 1.3kg chunk of space debris dropped out of the sky and plummeted through the tiled roof of the Auckland home on Saturday

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