It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a ... lump of something!
Any good theories out there on what this lump 'o junk might be? E.T.'s tennis ball? It's 2 1/4 by 1 1/4 inches, about 13 ounces, and described as a silver-gray, lumpy but smooth, rocklike object with a metallic sheen.
After blowing a hole in the roof of a Freehold Township home and into a second-floor bathroom, it bounced off the tile floor and became embedded in a wall. Ouch!
Sounds like it might be one of the rocks - actually mixtures of rock and metal - that an astronomy professor said about 20 to 50 of rain down from heaven each day. Usually not so close to home, I hope.
All the New York stations were crowding into Western Monmouth yesterday. A friend who was trying to get into town called and asked why all the TV stations were clogging the roadways into Freehold, with helicopters overhead as well. She heard the area was hit by a meteor and wanted to get the scoop. When I told her it was the size of a golf ball, she was slightly annoyed that it was going to cost her a lot more time on the road.
Slow metropolitan news day, I guess.
4 Comments:
It is feces discharged from a plane.
Yuck, anonymous!
I agree Margaret, it's pretty cool. I suspect it's a broken piece of "space junk," old satellites and the like floating around out there falling apart. Maybe we should dig out the old "Skylab" helmets from the late 70s?
If it fell into a housing project in Camden instead of a home in Freehold it would never have received the coverage it did.
We reported that the owners were thinking of setting up some type of "tour," if you will, to have the meteorite be taken to area schools so the kids could get a close look at it.
I thought that was a great idea, and very thoughtful on the part of the people whose house it crashed through!
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