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Metal ball weighing about 30 kilograms fell from the sky
Rio de Janeiro, February 24 - RIA Novosti, Alexander Krasnov. Metal ball weighing about 30 kilograms fell from the sky in the northern Brazilian state of Maranhao, local media reported.
Residents of the small town Anapurus 280 kilometers from the state capital, the city of San Luis heard a loud roar, followed by a blow, like an earthquake. Then, in the yard of a house, they found the funnel of about a meter, which is located inside a hollow metal ball.
Arrived on the police and rescuers were not able to determine the origin of the object. Specialists of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (Inpe) put forward the version that the metal ball may be part of the satellite. By a fluke, a result of his fall to earth no one was hurt.
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Residents of the small town Anapurus 280 kilometers from the state capital, the city of San Luis heard a loud roar, followed by a blow, like an earthquake. Then, in the yard of a house, they found the funnel of about a meter, which is located inside a hollow metal ball.
Arrived on the police and rescuers were not able to determine the origin of the object. Specialists of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (Inpe) put forward the version that the metal ball may be part of the satellite. By a fluke, a result of his fall to earth no one was hurt.
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