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Thu 02 Feb 2010Space rock proves an atmospheric fireball
WAS IT a rocket? Or was it a plane? No. Apparently it was a meteorite that lit up sections of the sky last evening.
Astronomy Ireland said it was inundated with reports of a fireball in the sky from about 6pm, and that it believed a space rock had crashed into the earth’s atmosphere with the force of a small atomic bomb and exploded before falling over Ireland.
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