Suspected meteorite crashes into rice field in India. - NBCNewsMACH
Farmers in India were working on a rice field when they said a meteorite crashed into the ground, leaving a giant crater.A villager holds a meteorite that crashed in a field at Mahadeva village in Madhubani district of the Indian eastern state of Bihar.One man said the light brown rock, which weighed roughly 33 pounds and reportedly had magnetic properties, was"a bit hot," The Associated Press reported.
District administrator S.K. Ashok said it will be taken to a lab for observation, according to the AP. Meteors are an asteroid or other objects in space that burn and vaporize upon entering the Earth's atmosphere. If a meteor survives and lands on the Earth's surface, it's called a meteorite.
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