Victorian astronomers, when faced with evidence that meteorites were
chucks of rock falling from the sky, ridiculed the evidence and said
that it would mean that "Heaven is falling to pieces, and we know for
certain such could never happen."

Did meteorite slam Oakland?

By Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News

DAVISBURG -- Live long and prosper -- and duck!

The Road Commission for Oakland County may have had a close encounter of
the shooting-star kind when what appears to be a meteorite hit one of
its maintenance facilities over the weekend.

"It happened sometime on Sunday when the yard was locked up and no one
was working," road commission spokesman Craig Bryson said. "Two workers
came in Monday morning and found an impact crater outside the main
garage near the employee parking lot. When they told me about it, I
thought they were kidding. What's next? We've hired Bigfoot as a
snowplow driver?"

Bryson said the object left a 12-inch-by-18-inch-by-3-inch crater in the
lot, which may not seem impressive until one learns that the crater is
in 6 inches of asphalt.

"The edges of the crater are seared black, and there's a fan-shaped
debris field spread out all around the site," Bryson said. "One of our
employees is an amateur astronomer, and he said it looks like every
impact crater he's ever seen."

The full article can be read at
http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0308/12/c01-242704.htm

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Victorian astronomers, when faced with evidence that meteorites were
chucks of rock falling from the sky, ridiculed the evidence and said
that it would mean that "Heaven is falling to pieces, and we know for
certain such could never happen."

Did meteorite slam Oakland?

By Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News

DAVISBURG -- Live long and prosper -- and duck!

The Road Commission for Oakland County may have had a close encounter of
the shooting-star kind when what appears to be a meteorite hit one of
its maintenance facilities over the weekend.

"It happened sometime on Sunday when the yard was locked up and no one
was working," road commission spokesman Craig Bryson said. "Two workers
came in Monday morning and found an impact crater outside the main
garage near the employee parking lot. When they told me about it, I
thought they were kidding. What's next? We've hired Bigfoot as a
snowplow driver?"

Bryson said the object left a 12-inch-by-18-inch-by-3-inch crater in the
lot, which may not seem impressive until one learns that the crater is
in 6 inches of asphalt.

"The edges of the crater are seared black, and there's a fan-shaped
debris field spread out all around the site," Bryson said. "One of our
employees is an amateur astronomer, and he said it looks like every
impact crater he's ever seen."

The full article can be read at
http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0308/12/c01-242704.htm