Rock Legends and Top Hits ... and I don't mean that kind!

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I mean real rocks ... really big ones!

The Above does not make the list

The list: Asteroid Impacts:10 Biggest Known Hits

Coming Soon: The # 1 HIT !!!

Then the third angel sounded: And a great star (ἀστὴρ μέγας ) fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 The name of the star (ἀστέρος) is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter (Revelation 8:10-11)

Comment: Greek lesson: ἀστὴρ μέγας = Great Astroid! Meanwhile a not-so-close call overnight.

Minnesota meteorite

Fireball seen in sky across Minnesota was meteorite

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The blazing orange and yellow fireball that Minnesotans reported seeing flash through Wednesday afternoon's clear blue sky was probably a meteor.
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Though sightings were reported from southwestern Minnesota to western Wisconsin around after 2 p.m., it's unlikely that there could be any definitive ruling that the object was a meteor, experts said. "There are a couple hundred tons of stuff that fall on the Earth every day," said Bob Gehrz, who heads the university's Astronomy Department. Because there are so many meteors regularly breaking into the atmosphere -- often unnoticed given that some are the size of grains of sand -- the activity is not comprehensively tracked, Gehrz said.
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If the object was indeed a meteor, given how bright it appeared in the middle of the day, it probably was at least the size of a pea, Gehrz said.

Those who saw the object included a man in Chanhassen who was looking out his dentist’s window, a downtown Minneapolis law firm employee who followed the object until it was obscured by a nearby skyscraper and an oil refinery worker in Rosemount who had a hard time convincing his co-workers that he saw what he saw.

It's possible the meteor disintegrated above a field a mile or so west of Hudson, according to DJ Vail of St. Paul. After a visit to her St. Croix River-side home, she was driving back into Minnesota along Interstate 94 after 2 p.m. when she spotted the fireball , she said. As it fell closer to the ground near a highway rest stop, it suddenly flamed out. Her sighting lasted just seconds.

Comment: I found it interesting that something so small ("probably was at least the size of a pea") could be so bright in mid-day!

Suspected meteorite hits Bloomington home

James Day, a professor of Geology at Illinois State University examines a space object that fell through the atmosphere and crashed through the window of a Bloomington home, Monday, March 5, 2007. The scientists believe the object may be a meterorite but must run more tests to be conclusive. (Pantagraph, David Proeber)

A computer desk absorbed the impact of a space object that fell through the atmosphere and crashed through the window of a Bloomington home, Monday, March 5, 2007. The scientists believe the object may be a meterorite but must run more tests to be conclusive. (Pantagraph, David Proeber)

Suspected meteorite hits Bloomington home

Excerpt:

A Bloomington couple caught a falling star Monday morning, not quite in their pockets but in a bedroom of their house.

A chunk of metal that crashed through the bedroom window of David and Dee Riddle’s home, 25 Partner Place, just after 9:30 a.m. appears to be a meteorite, but it also could be a piece of space junk, according to preliminary analysis by several Illinois State University geology professors.

However, the professors who had a look at it agree that whatever the heavy, gray object that crashed through their window is, it definitely came from space.

Robert “Skip” Nelson, a professor of geology at ISU, came out to Riddles’ home to take a look at the object, which is about the size of deck of cards.



Metal fragment that hit home not a meteorite

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The chunk of metal that crashed though a Bloomington couple’s home last month was not a meteorite but something man-made.

But Robert “Skip” Nelson, a professor of geology at Illinois State University, said the theory may be just as unique as he pieces together how the piece of metal made its way March 5 into David and Dee Riddle’s house at Partner Place.

Nelson said the metal object appears to have been ejected from a wood grinder from Twin City Wood Recycling. “That’s almost as amazing as it being a meteorite,” Nelson said.