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Family discovers doorstop is 4 billion-year-old meteorite
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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 60131" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Meteor chunk falls on Calif. home</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">By Lori Preuitt, NBCBayArea.com</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">A chunk of meteorite struck the house of a San Francisco Bay Area resident, landing in her backyard, after a meteor streaked through the sky on Wednesday evening.</span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/Projects/a_3k_meteor_121022.vembedlarge456.jpg" target="_blank">http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/Projects/a_3k_meteor_121022.vembedlarge456.jpg</a></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Lisa Webber found the 2-inch rock, weighing 63 grams, in her backyard on Saturday after reading an article in the local paper about the meteorite.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">She remembered hearing a strange noise on Wednesday, but thought that it was an animal, <strong><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Tiny-meteorite-fragment-hits-Novato-home-3969584.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue">SFGate.com reported</span></a></strong>. After finding the chunk on Saturday, along with a dent on her roof, she and a neighbor’s son put a magnet to the rock and the two stuck together.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">“It's just science -- and it's cool," Webber, of Novato, Calif. told <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Tiny-meteorite-fragment-hits-Novato-home-3969584.php#ixzz2A1XZwyBJ" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue">SFGate.com</span></a>. "It's wonderful. It's like the heavens coming down, and history and this thing probably came from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- I mean, how cool is that?"</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Investigators at the non-profit SETI Institute inspected Webber’s find and declared it authentic.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Wednesdays-Meteor-Falls-on-North-Bay-Home-175157541.html" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: blue">NBCBayArea.com: Wednesday's meteor falls on North Bay home</span></strong></a></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">"The significance of this find is that we can now hope to use our fireball trajectory to trace this type of meteorite back to its origins in the asteroid belt," said Dr. Peter Jenniskens, a SETI Institute investigator.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jenniskens and his crew believe that larger pieces of the meteor are out there and hope to find others. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 60131, member: 13"] [SIZE=6][B][FONT=Times New Roman]Meteor chunk falls on Calif. home[/FONT][/B][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman]By Lori Preuitt, NBCBayArea.com[/FONT] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman]A chunk of meteorite struck the house of a San Francisco Bay Area resident, landing in her backyard, after a meteor streaked through the sky on Wednesday evening.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/Projects/a_3k_meteor_121022.vembedlarge456.jpg"]http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Video/Projects/a_3k_meteor_121022.vembedlarge456.jpg[/url][/FONT] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman]Lisa Webber found the 2-inch rock, weighing 63 grams, in her backyard on Saturday after reading an article in the local paper about the meteorite.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman]She remembered hearing a strange noise on Wednesday, but thought that it was an animal, [B][URL='http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Tiny-meteorite-fragment-hits-Novato-home-3969584.php'][COLOR=blue]SFGate.com reported[/COLOR][/URL][/B]. After finding the chunk on Saturday, along with a dent on her roof, she and a neighbor’s son put a magnet to the rock and the two stuck together.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman]“It's just science -- and it's cool," Webber, of Novato, Calif. told [URL='http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Tiny-meteorite-fragment-hits-Novato-home-3969584.php#ixzz2A1XZwyBJ'][COLOR=blue]SFGate.com[/COLOR][/URL]. "It's wonderful. It's like the heavens coming down, and history and this thing probably came from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter -- I mean, how cool is that?"[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman]Investigators at the non-profit SETI Institute inspected Webber’s find and declared it authentic.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman][URL='http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Wednesdays-Meteor-Falls-on-North-Bay-Home-175157541.html'][B][COLOR=blue]NBCBayArea.com: Wednesday's meteor falls on North Bay home[/COLOR][/B][/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman]"The significance of this find is that we can now hope to use our fireball trajectory to trace this type of meteorite back to its origins in the asteroid belt," said Dr. Peter Jenniskens, a SETI Institute investigator.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=4][FONT=Times New Roman]Jenniskens and his crew believe that larger pieces of the meteor are out there and hope to find others. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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