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Rare daytime fireball may have dropped meteorites on Texas: Here's where to find them

https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/rare-daytime-fireball-may-have-dropped-meteorites-on-texas-heres-where-to-find-them

Rare daytime fireball may have dropped meteorites on Texas: Here's where to find them

The fireball shattered with the force of 26 tons of TNT, potentially spreading shards over a swathe of Texas land.

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Mar 23 at 6:18pmWeb
Show threadretechMar 23
@TheScienceFictionGuy It hit someone's home. There were photos over the weekend on reddit.
Show threadThe Science Fiction GuyMar 23
@retech Genuinely: Given the amount of space junk currently up there, and that occasionally some bits do make it to the ground intact, I wonder if home insurance against being hit by an object from space is a thing yet?
Show threadretechMar 23

@TheScienceFictionGuy Once Mush causes a kessler event with all his shit up there in LEO, I doubt you'll ever get insurance to agree to it.

The chunk that hit that house was easily a full pound or more (.5kg). Even if not covered, they'll still make money off it after the repairs. It made a relatively clean hole all the way through. Kind of surprised by the lack of greater damage. But it did go all the way through the house. (not surprising)