Football-sized object landed in paddy in Bihar state after ‘fireball’ came down from skyA suspected meteorite has plunged from the sky, startling farmers and crashing into the middle of a rice field in eastern India, according to authorities.The object – the size of a football – landed with a thud in a paddy field in Bihar states’s Madhubani district on Monday, sending up clouds of smoke. Kapil Ashok, the magistrate for Madhubani, told Times of India that labourers had seen “a fireball-like object coming down from the sky”. It was later dug from a 150cm-deep (5ft) deep hole by residents of Mahadeva village. Continue reading…
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