[meteorite-list] Meteorite Fall in Australia?

> > http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2004/06/28/1088274657543.html
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> > Terang man rocked by drop-in
> > By JACLYN DENSLEY
> > Warrnambool Standard (Australia)
> > June 28, 2004
> >
> > A TERANG man believes a meteorite whizzed past his head in the early
> > hours of the morning last week.
> >
> > Denis Lakic was awoken when his cat fell out of a tree about 3am and was
> > outside, trying to tie up his dog, when he heard a whooshing sound above.
> >
> > "Something banged down on the earth a couple of metres from me," Mr
> > Lakic said.
> >
> > "It was dark, I couldn't see anything, so I went to bed and came back
> > out at seven o'clock in the morning.
> >
> > "I walked out to have a look and there was a deep hole, about 18 inches,
> > and I got a spade and started digging around the rock."
> >
> > Mr Lakic said the hole created by the rock was diagonal, suggesting it
> > had hit the ground at an angle.
> >
> > He said the 250-gram object was seven or eight centimetres across and
> > was brown, red and other colours.
> >
> > "It's very heavy. It's not a normal rock," the Hampden Street resident said.
> >
> > "I think it's a meteorite. I'm not very scientific but it seems funny to me.
> >
> > "I want to know what's going on."
> >
> > A Bureau of Meteorology spokesman said the service got calls about
> > meteorites but they were referred to astronomy organisations.
> >
> > "I do know every 30-odd million years one the size of Warrnambool hits
> > and wipes all of us out," he offered, less than encouragingly.