A doctor's office in nearby Virginia, just one state down from me, got clobbered by a 'mango-sized' meteorite this week. Where others see disaster, I see envy. My envy. My favorite writeup is from The Register, because they have wit and write everything like a TV soap:
Nobody was hurt in the meteor strike, and the pieces of interplanetary
debris were subsequently identified as being extraterrestrial by a
geologist, fortuitously married to the doctors' receptionist.
...
Dr Linda Welzenbach of the Smithsonian - evidently a woman with an
encyclopaedic knowledge of asteroid strikes in America - immediately
said "as I recall, this will be the fourth fall in Virginia."
So where's my Maryland meteorite strike? Waaaaaah!
Alex, the Daytime Astronomer
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