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Meteorite Strikes County Match

London: The sparse crowd watching a county match was treated to an out of the world experience quite literally when a 4.5 billion years old meteorite came hurtling towards the ground. According to a report

PTI Updated on: July 27, 2010 11:08 IST
meteorite strikes county match
meteorite strikes county match

London: The sparse crowd watching a county match was treated to an out of the world experience quite literally when a 4.5 billion years old meteorite came hurtling towards the ground.


According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, the rock, was a few inches long and up to 4.5 billion years old.

England player Luke Wright was batting with Monty Panesar during the match when the black, five-inch rock came crashing down.



“We were sitting at the boundary edge when all of a sudden, out of a blue sky, we saw this small dark object hurtling towards us. It landed five yards inside the boundary and split into two pieces,” the newspaper quoted an eyewitness as saying.

“One piece bounced up and hit me in the chest and the other ended up against the boundary board.”

If true after experts verify, it would be first meteorite to strike Britain since 1992. PTI
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