[meteorite-list] NPA 11-10-1982 (Wethersfield) Meteorite Crashes through house (again)

[MARK BOSTICK]

Paper: The Gettysburg Times
City: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1982
Page: 3 (of 20)

Meteorite crashes through house

     WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (AP) - An object believed to be a meteorite crashed 
through the roof of a home in this Hartford suburb Monday evening, but 
occupants of the house escaped injury, police reported.
     The rock was "slightly bigger than a softball," said police officer 
Alan Powers, who added that he believed ti was a meteorite.
     It landed first in the living room of the single family home owned by 
Robert Donahue on Church Street and then "bounced into the living room," 
Powers said.
     Donahue and his wife were home at the time but were in another room 
watching television when the object smashed through the roof.
     Powers said his department had received numerous phone calls from 
residents who reported they had seen "bright lights and then heard an 
explosion" - phenomena associated with meteors rushing through the 
atmosphere.
     The rock was taken to the police station and authorities said they 
would investigate it further Tuesday to try to determine its origin.
     Donahue could not be reached for comment by The Associated Press on 
Monday night; telephone calls to his home went unanswered, and he refused to 
talk on camera with a Hartford television station.
     Meteors - some huge fireballs, others tiny specks - bombard Earth's 
atmosphere at the rate of one million an hour; only about 150 meteors a year 
survive the trip through the atmosphere and hit the surface of the Earth.  
Those that make it are called meteorites.

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