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Dateline: Sunday May 12, 2002 Belarus Woman Escapes Meteorite A meterorite passed within a few metres of a Belarussian woman working in her vegetable patch, the Interfax news agency reported yesterday. Teacher Ekaterina Privalova was digging in her garden in the village Krichev in Mogilievsky region when she heard what she later described as a ``terrible whistle . . . and then something struck my garden with an awful force''. After hiding in her house for some 40 minutes, Privalova returned to her vegetable patch to find a crater near where she had been digging. Privalova and her neighbours later measured the hole at one metre across and 40 centimetres deep. A shovel was required to uncover at the crater's bottom, a chunk of still-warm rounded stone, whose edges appeared to be burnt with a dark silver colour. Privalova donated the rock, weighing some 470 grammes, to the Bryansk middle school, where she was formerly teaching. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
