Jan 22: Indian villagers were so excited by a frozen ‘meteor’ that crashed into a farmer’s field Saturday that a few gathered pieces of the rock and stashed them in their refrigerators.
Meteorites can be worth thousands of dollars, but this unidentified falling object was not from outer space.
According to the Indian Express and the International Business Times, the yellow-brown ‘meteor’, weighing around 20 pounds, had a transparent surface and resembled ice. The impact created a one-foot-deep hole in the field.
“I rushed to the spot and saw the object. It seemed to weigh at least eight or 10 kilograms, judging by the dent it had made on the ground,” the Indian Express quoted Govind Singh as saying. “Initially, we thought it could be ice but it was not melting. So, we figured it must have some kind of chemical in it.”
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