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Subject: Re: Something else to watch out for!
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 09:38:58 EDT
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In article <11270@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>What caused this? Well, the theory is that that airplane had the first 
>observed encounter with a meteor. A several-ton meteor, of several meters
>diameter, perhaps composed of mostly ice with some stony fragments, could
>have hit that cloud layer on its way down through the atmosphere.

Shouldn't that be *meteorite*?

                             Seth Lipkin
                             General Computer Company
                             harvard!gcc-bill!lip

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