COSMIC DEBRIS
When a couple from Elmshorn in northern Germany heard a loud bang on 25 April, they knew not what to make of it. Then they found their roof smashed and a strange stone on their lawn. They assumed it was a meteorite and alerted the fire service, who checked for radiation but could detect none (“all meteorites are radioactive”, adds my source). Then, six further stones were found in the driveway of a neighbour. Experts from the German Centre for Air and Space navigation (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt, DLR) were called in, searched for a whole weekend, and found 13 additional fragments, one weighing 3.5kg (7.7lb), one flat and one as large as a tennis ball. All fragments collected resulted in 6kg (13lb) of cosmic debris, which will be analysed in a lab in Dresden. Well-known German meteorite expert Dieter Heinlein spoke of “a sensation”. It was suggested the stone had originally weighed one ton before it entered the atmosphere. www.ndr.de, 2 May 2023.
STRANGE NATURAL PHENOMENA
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