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Letter: Meteorite mystery

Published 16 February 2011

From Frank Sierowski

There is some debate over the object that fell from the sky onto a cricket match in Sussex, UK, in July 2010. It was described as a meteorite in the review of Ted Nield’s book Incoming! (22 January, p 47), but did it in fact fall from space?

An online report in The Telegraph dated 30 July 2010 suggests, less exotically, that the object probably fell from the undercarriage of a passing plane.

London, UK

Issue no. 2800 published 19 February 2011

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